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Appendix b, Important – MSI X99S SLI PLUS Manual User Manual

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Appendix B

B-5

Intel RAID

3. In the Disk field, press key and use key to select the disks you

want to create for the RAID volume, then click key to finish selection. This

field will become available according to the selected RAID level.

4. Then select the strip size for the RAID array by using the “upper arrow” or “down

arrow” keys to scroll through the available values, and pressing the key

to select and advance to the next field. The available values range from 4KB to

128 KB in power of 2 increments. The strip size should be chosen based on the

planned drive usage. Here are some typical values:

RAID0 -128KB / RAID10 - 64KB / RAID5 - 64KB. This field will become available

according to the selected RAID level.

5. Then select the capacity of the volume in the Capacity field. The default value is

the maximum volume capacity of the selected disks.

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CREATE VOLUME MENU

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HELP

Name :

The default value indicates the maximum capacity using the selected

disks. Entering a lower capacity allows you to create a second

volume on these disks.

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

RAID Level :

Disks :

Strip Size :

Capacity :

Sync :

Volume0

RAID1(Mirror)

Select Disks

N / A

XXX.X GB

N / A

Create Volume

Important

Since you want to create two volumes, this default size (maximum) needs to be

reduced. Type in a new size for the first volume. As an example: if you want the

first volume to span the first half of the two disks, re-type the size to be half of what

is shown by default. The second volume, when created, will automatically span the

remainder of two hard drives.

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