User manual ASROCK ALIVENF5-VSTA INSTALLATION GUIDE

[. . . ] If your motherboard is equipped with two SATA / SATAII ports, you may choose to use RAID 0, RAID 1, or JBOD function with your motherboard. If your motherboard is equipped with four SATA / SATAII ports, you may choose to use RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD, or RAID 5 function with your motherboard according to the SATA / SATAII HDDs amount you install. Please refer to the RAID functions your motherboard provides in advance and follow the instruction in this section to create RAID arrays. NOTE: The connector naming on our motherboard is different with NVIDIA utility naming. Please refer to the below table for detailed information. [. . . ] By default, RAID Mode is set to Mirroring, but please set it to Striping if you want to create RAID 0. And the Striping Block is set to Optimal as default. We take 4 RAID 0 for example to show you how to use NVRAID RAID Utility to create RAID 0 (Striping). If you plan to use NVRAID RAID Utility to create other RAID arrays, the operation procedures are similar to the steps of creating RAID 0. 5 Striping block size is given in kilobytes, and affect how data is arranged on the disk. It is recommended to leave this value at the default Optimal, which is 64KB, but the values can be between 8KB and 128KB (8, 16, 32, 64, and 128KB). The disks that you enabled from the RAID Config BIOS setup page appear in the Free Disks block. These are the drives that are available for use as RAID array disk, A. Move it from the Free Disks block to the Array Disks block by pressing the right-arrow key. Continue pressing the right-arrow key until all the disks that you want to use as RAID array disks appear in the Array Disks block. 6 After assigning your RAID array disks, press <F7> to save your changes of RAID array disks. Depending on the platform used, the system can have one or more channels. In a typical system there is usually one adapter and multiple channels, and each channel has a slave and a master. The adapter / channel / master / slave status of each hard disk is given in the Loc (location) columns of the Free Disks and Array Disks lists. For example: 1. 0. M 1: Channel - Typically, channel 0 is used for Parallel ATA drives while channel 1 is used for Serial ATA drives. 0: Controller M: M means Master, S means Slave Serial ATA 1 . M Channel 1, controller 1, Master Finally, the Array List window appears, where you can review the RAID arrays that you have set up. Healthy NVIDIA STRIPING 74. 53G 7 2. NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to configure RAID functions by using NVIDIAMAN under Windows environment. Please read this guide carefully and follow the instructions below to configure and manage RAID functions. For Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit and Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit, there are different installation procedures. Please follow the instructions below according to the OS you install. 2. 1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit Users A. Enter NVRAIDMAN RAID driver is built in NVIDIA ALL in one driver provided in our support CD. After you finish the driver installation, you can create, delete, or rebuild any RAID array. Please enter NVRAIDMAN by clicking on Start Programs NVIDIA Corporation Mediashield Mediashield. (There is also a "Mediashield" shortcut on the desktop. ) Then, the below screen appears. 8 B. [. . . ] You need to choose the RAID Mode first and click Next. Here we take Striping (RAID 0) for example to show you how to use Storage to create Striping (RAID 0). If you plan to use Storage to create other RAID arrays, the operation procedures are similar to the steps of creating Striping (RAID 0). 20 After you decide the RAID Mode, you are allowed to select the Stripe Size. Then click Next. Select the disks to add to the new RAID array, and click Next. Select the disk with data to preserve, and click Next. 21 Click Next to confirm that you agree to use the default settings for RAID configurations. Click Finish to complete the steps of creating RAID array. C. [. . . ]