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PCE-5126 User Manual 64
8.1 Introduction
To support demanding disk I/O, Intel Q67/C206 chipset integrates six Serial ATA con-
trollers with software RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 capabilities.
RAID 0 striping increases the storage performance and is designed to speed up data
transfer rates for disk-intensive applications.
RAID 1 mirroring protects valuable data that might be lost in the event of a hard drive
failure.
RAID 5 array contains three or more hard drives where the data is divided into man-
ageable blocks called strips. Parity is a mathematical method for recreating data that
was lost from a single drive, which increases fault-tolerance. The data and parity are
striped across all the hard drives in the arr ay. The p arity is striped in a rot ating
sequence to reduce bottlenecks associated with the parity calculations.
RAID 10 array uses four hard drives to create a combination of RAID levels 0 and 1.
The data is striped across a two-drive array forming the RAID 0 component. Each of
the drives in the RAID 0 array is then mirrored by a RAID 1 component.
8.2 SATA RAID Driver and Utility Setup
The driver is in the CD’s “Others\RAID” folder.You may go to the directory of the CD
and follow Intel's installation guide to install the driver and utility.
Note! For the detailed installation instructions for the SATA RAID driver and
utility, please check the User Guide in the driver CD. Path: Others\RAID
Note! Before you install the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager, please read the
"readme.txt" which is in the folder “Others\RAID”.