Eurocom M570U DIVINE - Manual (Page 116)

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Setting Up SATA RAID
If your purchase includes the RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) option,
the following pages provide an introduction to configuring your hard disk(s) in
RAID mode. You may use your hard disks in combination with Striping (RAID 0)
or Mirroring (RAID 1) for either fault tolerance or performance.
Prepare the following before setting up your Serial ATA hard disks in RAID mode:
1. An external USB CD/DVD device drive (the Microsoft Windows OS CD should be
inserted into this drive).
2. The second hard disk installed in the optional device drive bay (see page 6 - 9 ).
RAID Level Description
RAID 0
Identical drives reading and writing data in parallel to increase performance. RAID 0
implements a striped disk array and the data is broken into blocks and each block is
written to a separate disk drive.
RAID 1
Identical drives in a mirrored configuration used to protect data. Should a drive that is
part of a mirrored array fail, the mirrored drive (which contains identical data) will
handle all the data. When a new replacement drive is installed, data to the new drive is
rebuilt from the mirrored drive to restore fault tolerance.
Table 7 - 1
RAID Levels