Nvidia 400 User Manual
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S-ATA RAID Configuration
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nVidia S-ATA RAID Features
The nVidia S-ATA RAID solution uses the nForce2 RAID MCP chip as a RAID
controller, which is a 2-channel S-ATA and 1-channel ATA133 solution. Listed
below are the main features and benefits of nVidia S-ATA RAID:
• Support two S-ATA hard disk drives.
• Supports hard disk drive larger than 137 GB (48-bits LBA).
• Supports RAID 0, 1 and JBOD.
• Free Disk and Dedicated Spare Disk
A Free Disk or Dedicated Disk can be automatically used in case one drive
of a mirrored array fails. A free disk can be used by any available mirrored
array, while a dedicated disk can be used only by the array to which it is
assigned.
• RAID Across PATA and SATA
NVRAID can span across both Parallel ATA as well as Serial ATA
controllers. RAID operations can be performed on Parallel ATA hard drives,
Serial ATA hard drives, or both Parallel and Serial ATA hard drives.
• Bootable RAID
NVRAID can be configured in a way to make it bootable. For example, two
hard drives can be configured as a bootable mirrored RAID array.
• RAID on Multiple Disk Controllers
Unlike other RAID solutions that limits the user to a dedicated RAID
controller, NVRAID software can use a drive on one RAID controller and
another drive on a second RAID controller.