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If you use either Windows ® XP or Windows ® 2000 operating system
(OS), copy first the RAID driver from the support CD to a floppy disk
before creating RAID configurations.
3.3 RAID configurations
The motherboard comes with the Intel ® ICH6R Southbridge RAID controller
that allow you to configure IDE and Serial ATA hard disk drives as RAID
sets. The motherboard supports the following RAID configurations.
R A I D 0 R A I D 0 R A I D 0 R A I D 0 R A I D 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.
R A I D 1 R A I D 1 R A I D 1 R A I D 1 R A I D 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
configuration 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.
I n t e l I n t e l I n t e l I n t e l I n t e l ® ® ® ® ® M a t r i x S t o r a g e . M a t r i x S t o r a g e . M a t r i x S t o r a g e . M a t r i x S t o r a g e . M a t r i x S t o r a g e . The Intel ® Matrix Storage technology supported
by the ICH6R chip allows you to create a RAID 0 and a RAID 1 set using
two identical hard disk drives. The Intel
® Matrix Storage technology creates
two partitions on each hard disk drive to create a virtual RAID 0 and RAID 1
sets. This technology also allows you to change the hard disk drive
partition size without losing any data.
For more information on the Intel ® Matrix Storage technology, visit
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