Chapter 4. Raid Setting Guide; The Features Of Raid On The Kr7A-Raid; Raid Setup On The Kr7A-Raid - Abit KR7A User Manual

RAID Setting Guide 4-1

Chapter 4. RAID Setting Guide

For detail RAID introduce and concept, you can found it on our WEB site "Technological Terms", or
you can search the concerning information on internet. We do not description it on this manual.

4-1. The features of RAID on the KR7A-RAID

The KR7A-RAID supports Striping (RAID 0), Mirroring (RAID 1), or Striping/Mirroring (RAID 0+1)
operation. For the striping operation, the identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase
performance. The Mirroring operation creates a complete backup of your files. Striping with Mirroring
operation offers both high read/write performance and fault tolerance although requiring 4 hard disks in
order to do so.

4-2. RAID SETUP on the KR7A-RAID

Enter Advanced BIOS Features in the BIOS setup. Change the settings of First Boot Device, Second Boot
Device and Third Boot Device to read ATA133RAID. See Figure 4-1.
Figure 4-1. RAID settings in BIOS
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