Creating a raid 5 set (parity) – Asus P5E64 WS Professional User Manual

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Chapter 5: Software support

Creating a RAID 5 set (parity)

To create a RAID 5 set:

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

. This screen appears.

Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM v5.0.0.1032 ICH7R wRAID5

[

CREATE ARRAY MENU

]

[

DISK/VOLUME INFORMATION

]

Enter a string between 1 and 16 characters in length that can be used

to uniquely identify the RAID volume. This name is case sensitive and

cannot contain special characters.

Name:

RAID Level:

Disks:

Strip Size:

Capacity:

Volume5

RAID5(Parity)
Select Disks
64KB
0.0 GB

Create Volume

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

2. Enter a name for the RAID 5 set, then press .
3. When the RAID Level item is highlighted, press the up/down arrow key to

select RAID 5(Parity), then press .

4. The Disks item is highlighted, press to select the hard disk drives to

configure as RAID. The following pop-up screen appears.

[

SELECT DISKS

]

Port Drive Model Serial # Size Status

0 XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XX.XGB Non-RAID Disk

1 XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XX.XGB Non-RAID Disk
2 XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XX.XGB Non-RAID Disk
3 XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XX.XGB Non-RAID Disk

Select 2 to 4 disks to use in creating the volume.

[↑↓]-Previous/Next [SPACE]-Selects [ENTER]-Selection Complete