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- Page 1 II 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual...
- Page 2 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual Important Message for User before Installing RC-213: Before controller card installation, we recommend the users to study this manual and the PDF file of SATARaid5 Manual at enclosed CD folder\SATA PCIe_Raid5_2Port\SiI3132\Windows\Gui ( or\Raid5 SATA2_4Port\SiI3124\ Windows\Gui ) first.
- Page 3 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual 1. Introduction This Low Profile PCI-Express Host Adapter is a controller board to support Low profile PCI and regular size PCI both in one card. The card can upgrade your desktop computer to have 2 ports Serial ATA II transfer rate of 3 Gb/s (300 MB/s).
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Page 4: What Is Raid
1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual 20. RAID 0+1 (Mirrored-Stripping) combine both Striping and Mirroring technologies to provide both the performance enhancements that come from Striping and the data availability and integrity that comes from Mirroring. 1.2. Package Contents 1. -
Page 5: Installation Procedures
1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual installations. Mirroring requires 100% increase in capacity to protect the data whereas the above example only requires a 50% increase. The required capacity decreases as the number of disks in the group increases. - Page 6 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual f. Keep the floppy in floppy drive and follow the installation. Press “S” when the screen shows as the following picture.
- Page 7 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual g. Choose the correct OS for your future system. h. Keep the floppy disk in floppy drive during the installation. PC will notice you as below if you take them off from...
- Page 8 HD and boot as RAID 1 HD set. In this case, you will boot your computer from a Mirror HD set connecting to RC213 instead of motherboard. Please follow the following instructions. a. Install RC-213 into a PCI slot. Boot up the system and enter the OS. Install RC-213 with driver disk coming in the box.
- Page 9 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual Detail guide: 1. Power down the computer system. 2. Insert the Host card into an available bus slot. 3. Power ON. 4. Install Device Driver as section 5. 5. Remove all the existing SATARaid GUI (or Java SATARaid GUI) to ensure your new SATARaid5 GUI can work properly.
- Page 10 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual 2. Select Create RAID set. Press Enter. 3. Select RAID 1 then press Enter. 4. Select Auto configuration. Press Enter. 5. Press Y to save your settings. 6. Press CTRL+E and then press Y to exit the setup.
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Page 11: Software Installation
1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual 4.7. Deleting RAID Sets 1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility. 2. Select Delete RAID set. Press Enter. 3. Answer Y to remove the RAID set. If the RAID set being deleted is a Striped set, then all of the data will be lost. If the set being deleted is a Mirrored set, then the data will remain intact and accessible on both drives. - Page 12 4. See instructions in section 5.3 to verify controller was installed correctly. Thank you for purchasing a quality Rosewill Product. Please register your product at : www.rosewill.com for complete warranty information and future support for your product.