Dell OptiPlex 755 User Manual
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5.
Press the up- and down-arrow keys to select RAID0(Stripe), and press <Enter>.
6.
Press the up- and down-arrow keys to change the stripe size and press <Enter>.
7.
Select the desired capacity for the volume and press <Enter>. The default value is the maximum available size.
8.
Press <Enter> to create the volume.
9.
Press <y> to confirm that you want to create the RAID volume.
10.
Confirm that the correct volume configuration is displayed on the main Intel RAID Option ROM utility screen.
11.
Press the up- and down-arrow keys to select Exit and press <Enter>.
12.
Install the operating system (see
Restoring Your Operating System
).
Creating a RAID Level 1 Configuration
1.
Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see
Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode
).
2.
Press <Ctrl><i> when you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility.
3.
Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight Create RAID Volume and press <Enter>.
4.
Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default and press <Enter>.
5.
Use the up- and down-arrow keys to select RAID1(Mirror) and press <Enter>.
6.
Select the desired capacity for the volume, and press <Enter>. The default value is the maximum available size.
7.
Press <Enter> to create the volume.
8.
Press <y> to confirm that you want to create the RAID volume.
9.
Confirm that the correct volume configuration is displayed on the main Intel RAID Option ROM utility screen.
10.
Use the up- and down-arrow keys to select Exit, and press <Enter>.
11.
Install the operating system (see
Restoring Your Operating System
).
Configuring Your Computer for RAID Using the Intel Matrix Storage Manager
If you already have one hard drive with the operating system installed on it, and you want to add a second hard drive and reconfigure both drives into a RAID
volume without losing the existing operating system and any data, you need to use the migrating option for a RAID level 0 configuration (see
) or a RAID level 1 configuration (see
Migrating to a RAID Level 1 Configuration
). Create a RAID level 0 volume or RAID level 1 volume
only when:
l
You are adding a new drive to an existing single-drive computer (and the operating system is on the single drive), and you want to configure the drives
into a RAID volume.
l
You already have a two-hard drive computer configured into a volume, but you still have some space left on the volume that you want to designate as
a second RAID volume.
Creating a RAID Level 0 Configuration
1.
Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see
Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode
).
2.
Click Start and point to Programs® Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager® Intel Matrix Storage Console to launch the Intel Storage Utility.
NOTE:
Select the stripe size closest to the size of the average file that you want to store on the RAID volume. If you do not know the average file size,
choose 128 KB as your stripe size.
NOTE:
When you perform this operation, all data on the RAID drives will be lost.