Chapter 8 Sata Raid Setup; Introduction; Sata Raid Driver And Utility Setup - Advantech PCE-5124 User Manual

Chapter 8 SATA RAID Setup

8.1 Introduction

To support demanding disk I/O, Intel ICH9DO chipset integrates six
Serial ATA controllers with software RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 capabilities.
RAID 0 stripping increases the storage performance and is designed to
speed up data transfer rates for disk-intensive applications.
RAID 1 mirroring protects valuable data that might be lost in the event of
a hard drive failure.
RAID 5 array contains three or more hard drives where the data is divided
into manageable blocks called strips. Parity is a mathematical method for
recreating data that was lost from a single drive, which increases fault-tol-
erance. The data and parity are striped across all the hard drives in the
array. The parity is striped in a rotating sequence to reduce bottlenecks
associated with the parity calculations.
RAID 10 array uses four hard drives to create a combination of RAID
levels 0 and 1. The data is striped across a two-drive array forming the
RAID 0 component. Each of the drives in the RAID 0 array is then mir-
rored by a RAID 1 component.

8.2 SATA RAID Driver and Utility Setup

Note:
Note:
The driver is in the CD's "RAID" folder.You may go to the directory of
the CD and follow Intel's installation guide to install the driver and Util-
ity.
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For the detail installation guide of SATA RAID
driver & utility please check the User Guide in
the driver CD. Path: \RAID\Manual
Before you install the Intel(R) Matrix Storage
Manager Please read the "readme.txt" which is
in the folder "RAID".
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