User`s guide

Motherboard User’s Guide

The NVIDIA RAID Utility—Define a New Array screen appears (Figure 2.8).

Figure 2.8 NVIDIA RAID Utility

By default, RAID Mode is set to Mirroring and Striping Block is set to Optimal.

Using the Define a New Array Screen

If necessary, press the tab key to move from field to field until the appropriate field is

highlighted.

• Selecting the RAID Mode

Striping block size is given in kilobytes, and affects 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 4 KB and 128 KB (4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and 128 KB)

Assigning the Disks

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 disks.

To designate a free disk to be used as a RAID array disk,

By default, this is set to Mirroring. To change to a different RAID mode, press the

down arrow key until the mode that you want appears in the RAID Mode box—

either Mirroring, Striping, Spanning, Stripe Mirroring or RAID 5.

• Selecting the Strping Block Size

Note: Not all RAID levels are supported on all platforms.

Tab to the Free Disks section.

The first disk in the list is selected

Move it from the Free Disks block to the Array Disks block by pressing the right-

arrow key (—>).

The first disk in the list is moved, and the next disk in the list is selected and ready

to be moved.

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.