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Intel ICH10R SATA RAID ▍
MS-96E0
Intel ICH10R SATA RAID ▍
MS-96E0
(1) Congure Volume
Here you can congure the new RAID volume by entering the volume name, selecting
the RAID level and strip size.
RAID Volume Name:
A desired RAID volume name needs to be typed in where the “Volume_0000” text
currently appears above. The RAID volume name has a maximum limit of 16 char-
acters. The RAID volume name must also be in English alphanumeric ASCII char-
acters.
RAID Level:
Select the desired RAID level:
RAID 0 (Performance) :
A volume optimized for performance will allow you to access your data more quick
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ly.
RAID 1 (Redundancy) :
A volume optimized for data redundancy will provide you with a realtime duplicate
copy of your data. Note: Only half of the available volume space will be available for
data storage.
RAID 5 (Useful) :
RAID 5 can be used on three or more disks, with zero or more spare-disks. The
resulting RAID-5 device size will be (N-1)*S, where N is the how many drive, S is the
size of the smallest drive in the array. If one of the disks fail, all data are still intact. It
can rebuild the disk from the parity information. If spare disks are available, recon
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struction will begin immediately after the device failure. If two disks fail simultane-
ously, all data are lost. RAID-5 can survive one disk failure, but not two or more. Both
read and write performance usually increase, but can be hard to predict how much.
Reads are similar to RAID-0 reads, writes can be either rather expensive (requiring
read-in prior to write, in order to be able to calculate the correct parity information),
or similar to RAID-1 writes. The write efciency depends heavily on the amount of
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