Personal Computer User Manual

Chapter8.ConguringRAID

ThischapterprovidesinstructionsonhowtoinstallharddiskdrivesandcongureRedundantArrayof

IndependentDisks(RAID)foryourcomputer.Dependingonyourcomputermodel,RAIDcanbeenabledby

IntelRapidStoreTechnologyenterprise(RSTe)ortheLSIMegaRAIDBIOS.

Note:TheRAIDcongurationinformationdescribedinthischapterisonlyapplicableintheWindows

environment.ForinformationaboutconguringRAIDintheLinuxenvironment,contactyourLinuxsoftware

provider.

Thischapterprovidesinformationaboutthefollowingtopics:

•“ConguringRAIDwithIntelRSTe”onpage71

•“QuickRAIDsetupusingtheLSIMegaRAIDBIOScongurationutility”onpage73

ConguringRAIDwithIntelRSTe

IfyourcomputercomeswithIntelRSTe,youcanfollowthesectionsbelowtocongureRAIDwithIntelRSTe.

Thissectionprovidesinformationaboutthefollowingtopics:

•“InstallingSATAorSASharddiskdrives”onpage71

•“ConguringSATAorSASRAIDfunctionalitywithIntelRSTecongurationutility”onpage72

InstallingSATAorSASharddiskdrives

EnsurethatyourcomputerhastheminimumnumberofSATAorSASharddiskdrivesinstalledforthe

followingsupportedlevelsofRAID:

•RAIDLevel0-Stripeddiskarray

–ARAIDLevel0harddiskdrivegroupconsistingofatleasttwoharddiskdrives

–Supportedstripsize:4KB,8KB,16KB,32KB,64KB,or128KB

–Betterperformancewithoutfaulttolerance

•RAIDLevel1-Mirroreddiskarray

–ARAIDLevel1harddiskdrivegroupconsistingoftwoharddiskdrives

–Improvedreadperformanceand100%redundancy

•RAIDLevel5-Block-levelstripeddiskarraywithdistributedparity

–ARAIDLevel5harddiskdrivegroupconsistingofatleastthreeharddiskdrives

–Supportedstripsize:4KB,8KB,16KB,32KB,or64KB

–Betterperformanceandfaulttolerance

–RAIDLevel5byusingIntelRSTesupportsSATAharddiskdrivesonly

Ensurethatthecorrectharddiskdriveenablementmoduleisinstalledinyourcomputer:

•IfzerotothreeSATAharddiskdrivesorsolidstatedrivesareinstalled,noharddiskdriveenablement

moduleisneeded.

•IfthereisanySASharddiskdriveinstalled,theSASharddiskdriveenablementmodule(onetothree

harddiskdrives)isrequired.