
Note:TheinformationaboutconfiguringRAIDinthistopicisapplicableonlyinaWindowsenvironment.For
informationaboutconfiguringRAIDinaLinuxenvironment,contactyourLinuxsoftwareprovider.
RAIDlevel
YourservermusthavetheminimumnumberofSATAharddiskdrivesinstalledforthesupportedlevelof
RAIDtofunction:
•RAIDLevel0–Stripeddiskarray
–Twoharddiskdrivesminimum
–Betterperformancewithoutfaulttolerance
•RAIDLevel1–Mirroreddiskarray
–Twoharddiskdrivesminimum
–Improvedreadperformanceand100%redundancy
Toinstallasecondaryharddiskdrive,referto“Installingorreplacingthesecondaryharddiskdrive”
onpage33.
ConfiguringthesystemBIOStoenableSATARAIDfunctionality
ThissectiondescribeshowtoconfigurethesystemBIOStoenableSATARAIDfunctionality.
Note:Usethearrowkeysonthekeyboardtomakeselections.
ToenableSATARAIDfunctionality,dothefollowing:
1.StarttheSetupUtilityprogram.See“StartingtheSetupUtilityprogram”onpage55.
2.SelectDevices➙ATADriveSetup.
3.SelectConfigureSATAasandpressEnter.
4.SelectRAIDModeandpressEnter.
5.PressF10tosavechangesandexittheSetupUtilityprogram.
CreatingRAIDvolumes
ThissectiondescribeshowtousetheIntelMatrixStorageManageroptionROMconfigurationutilityto
createRAIDvolumes.
TocreateRAIDvolumes,dothefollowing:
1.PressCtrl+IwhenpromptedtoentertheIntelMatrixStorageManageroptionROMconfigurationutility
duringsystemstartup.
2.UsetheupanddownarrowkeystoselectCreateRAIDVolumeandpressEnter.
3.TypeaproperRAIDvolumenameintheNamefieldandpressTab.
4.UsethearrowkeystoselectaRAIDlevelintheRAIDLevelfieldandpressTab.
5.Ifappropriate,usethearrowkeystoselectastripesizeintheStripeSizefieldandpressTab.
6.TypeavolumesizeintheCapacityfieldandpressTab.
7.PressEntertoinitiatevolumecreation.
8.Whenprompted,pressYtoacceptthewarningmessageandcreatethevolume.
9.Ifdesired,returntostep2tocreateadditionalRAIDvolumes.
10.Whenfinished,selectExitandpressEnter.
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