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Chapter 4, Creating a raid volume – Asus Sabertooth 55i User Manual

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Chapter 4: Software support

Chapter 4

Creating a RAID volume

To create a RAID set:
1.

From the utility main menu, select 1. Create RAID Volume and press . The

following screen appears:

2.

Enter a name for the RAID set and press .

3.

When the RAID Level item is selected, press the up/down arrow key to select a RAID

mode to create, and then press .

4.

When the Disks item is selected, press to select the hard disk drives you want

to include in the RAID set. The SELECT DISKS screen appears:

The utility supports maximum four hard disk drives for RAID configuration.

The navigation keys at the bottom of the screen allow you to move through the menus

and select the menu options.

The RAID BIOS setup screens shown in this section are for reference only and may not

exactly match the items on your screen.

Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v8.9.0.1014 PCH-D wRAID5

Copyright(C) 2003-09 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

[

CREATE VOLUME MENU

]

[

HELP

]

Enter a unique volume name that has no special characters and is

16 characters or less.

[↑↓]Change [TAB]-Next [ESC]-Previous Menu [ENTER]-Select

Name:

Volume0

RAID Level: RAID0(Stripe)

Disks: Select Disks

Strip Size: 128KB

Capacity: 0.0 GB

Sync: N/A

Create Volume

[ SELECT DISKS ]

Port Drive Model Serial # Size Status

0 ST3160812AS 9LS0HJA4 149.0GB Non-RAID Disk

1 ST3160812AS 9LS0F4HL 149.0GB Non-RAID Disk

2 ST3160812AS 3LS0JYL8 149.0GB Non-RAID Disk

3 ST3160812AS 9LS0BJ5H 149.0GB Non-RAID Disk

Select 2 to 6 disks to use in creating the volume.

[↑↓]-Prev/Next [SPACE]-SelectDisk [ENTER]-Done