Asus TS300-E5 - Manual (Page 6)

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Contents
6.1 Setting up RAID ........................................................................... 6-2
6.1.1
RAID definitions .............................................................. 6-2
6.1.2 Installing hard disk drives ................................................ 6-3
6.1.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS (For PA4 model only) ..... 6-3
6.1.4 RAID configuration utility (For PA4 model only) .............. 6-3
6.2 LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility
(For PA4 model Only) ................................................................... 6-4
6.2.1
Creating a RAID 0 or RAID 1 set .................................... 6-5
6.2.2 Creating a RAID 10 set ..................................................6-11
6.2.3 Adding or viewing a RAID configuration ....................... 6-15
6.2.4 Initializing the logical drives .......................................... 6-18
6.2.5 Rebuilding failed drives ................................................. 6-23
6.2.6 Checking the drives for data consistency ..................... 6-25
6.2.7 Deleting a RAID configuration ....................................... 6-28
6.2.8 Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set ...................... 6-29
6.2.9 Enabling the WriteCache .............................................. 6-30
6.3 Intel ® Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM Utility
(For PA4 model only) ................................................................. 6-31
6.3.1
Creating a RAID 0 set (Stripe) ...................................... 6-32
6.3.2 Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirror) ...................................... 6-34
6.3.3 Creating a RAID 10 set (Stripe + Mirror) ....................... 6-35
6.3.4 Creating a RAID 5 set (Parity) ...................................... 6-36
6.3.5 Deleting a RAID set ...................................................... 6-37
6.3.6 Resetting disks to Non-RAID ........................................ 6-38
6.3.7 Rebuilding the RAID ..................................................... 6-38
6.3.8 Exiting the Intel ® Matrix Storage Manager .................... 6-41
6.3.9 Setting the Boot array use MB BIOS Setup Utility ........ 6-41
6.3.10 Global Array Manager ................................................... 6-42
6.4 LSI Corporation MPT Setup Utility
(for PX4 model only) .................................................................. 6-43
6.4.1
Integrated Mirroring volume .......................................... 6-43
6.4.2 Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volume ......................... 6-47
6.4.3 Integrated Striping (IS) volume ..................................... 6-49
6.4.4 Managing Arrays ........................................................... 6-51
6.4.5 Viewing SAS topology ................................................... 6-56
6.4.6 Global Properties .......................................................... 6-57