User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Safety information
- Chapter 1: Product Introduction
- Chapter 2: Hardware Setup
- Chapter 3: Motherboard Information
- Chapter 4: BIOS Setup
- 4.1 Knowing BIOS
- 4.2 BIOS setup program
- 4.3 My Favorites
- 4.4 Main menu
- 4.5 Ai Tweaker menu
- 4.6 Advanced menu
- 4.6.1 Platform Misc Configuration
- 4.6.2 CPU Configuration
- 4.6.3 System Agent (SA) Configuration
- 4.6.4 PCH Configuration
- 4.6.5 PCH Storage Configuration
- 4.6.6 PCH-FW Configuration
- 4.6.7 AMT Configuration
- 4.6.8 Thunderbolt(TM) Configuration
- 4.6.9 Serial Port Console Redirection
- 4.6.10 Intel TXT Information
- 4.6.11 PCI Subsystem Settings
- 4.6.12 USB Configuration
- 4.6.13 Network Stack Configuration
- 4.6.14 NVMe Configuration
- 4.6.15 HDD/SSD SMART Information
- 4.6.16 APM Configuration
- 4.6.17 Onboard Devices Configuration
- 4.6.18 Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology
- 4.7 Monitor menu
- 4.8 Boot menu
- 4.9 Tool menu
- 4.10 Exit menu
- 4.11 Updating BIOS
- Chapter 5: RAID Configuration
- Appendix
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Chapter 5: RAID Conguration
5.1 RAID configurations
The motherboard supports Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology enterprise Option ROM Utility
with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and RAID 5 support.
If you want to install a Windows
®
operating system to a hard disk drive included in a RAID
set, you have to create a RAID driver disk and load the RAID driver during OS installation.
Refer to section Creating a RAID driver disk for details.
5.1.1 RAID definitions
RAID 0 (Data striping) optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write data in
parallel, interleaved stacks. Two hard disks perform the same work as a single drive but at a
sustained data transfer rate, double that of a single disk alone, thus improving data access
and storage. Use of two new identical hard disk drives is required for this setup.
RAID 1 (Data mirroring) copies and maintains an identical image of data from one drive to
a second drive. If one drive fails, the disk array management software directs all applications
to the surviving drive as it contains a complete copy of the data in the other drive. This RAID
conguration provides data protection and increases fault tolerance to the entire system. Use
two new drives or use an existing drive and a new drive for this setup. The new drive must be
of the same size or larger than the existing drive.
RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives. Among
the advantages of RAID 5 conguration include better HDD performance, fault tolerance, and
higher storage capacity. The RAID 5 conguration is best suited for transaction processing,
relational database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other business systems.
Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives for this setup.
RAID 10 is data striping and data mirroring combined without parity (redundancy data) having
to be calculated and written. With the RAID 10 conguration you get all the benets of both
RAID 0 and RAID 1 congurations. Use four new hard disk drives or use an existing drive
and three new drives for this setup.
5.1.2 Installing storage devices
The motherboard supports Serial ATA hard disk drives, PCIE SSD storage devices, and M.2
modules. For optimal performance, install identical drives or modules of the same model and
capacity when creating a disk array.
Refer to Chapter 2 for details on installing storage devices to your motherboard.