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Creating a raid 1 set (mirrored) – Asus M2N32-SLI Premium VISTA Edition User Manual

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Chapter 5: Software support

2. Select RAID 1 then press

to display the

following.

MAIN MENU

Auto configuration

Manual configuration

c. The selection bar moves to

the Physical Drive menu.

Using the up or down arrow

keys, select a drive then

press to set the

first drive of the RAID set.

d. Repeat step c to set the second, third, and fourth drive. The number of

available drives depend on the installed and enabled physical drives in

the system.

e. The utility prompts a message to input the RAID size, use the up or down

arrow keys to set the RAID size then press .

f. Press to confirm or to return to the Main Menu.

TIP: For server systems, we recommend using a lower array block size. For

multimedia computer systems used mainly for audio and video editing, we

recommend a higher array block size for optimum performance.

PHYSICAL DRIVE

0 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB

1 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB

2 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB

3 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB

Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirrored)

To create a RAID 1 set:

1. From the Silicon Image

configuration utility main

menu, select Create RAID

set then press .

The following sub-menu

appears.

MAIN MENU

Create RAID set

Delete RAID set

Rebuild Raid1 set

Resolve Conflicts

Low Level Format

Logical Drive Info

RAID0

RAID1

RAID10

SPARE DRIVE

RAID0

RAID1

SPARE DRIVE

CONCATENATION