Raid arrays, Raid 0 (striping) – Rosewill RC212 User Manual
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLER
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set any RAID set at the beginning of booting. You can jump to P11 “Driver installation”
directly to complete the install. The only different is ignoring the step of RAID setting
and the driver setting is the same as a RAID card.
RAID Arrays
RAID Arrays are setup in the PCI SATA+PATA RAID card’s BIOS.
There are four configurations supported:
RAID
level/Type
Configurations
Number of disks needed
RAID 0
Disk Striping
2 or 3 or 4
RAID 1
Disk Mirroring
2
RAID 0+1
Disk Striping
+ Mirroring
4
JBOD
Disk Concatenation
2 or 3 or 4
RAID 0 (Striping)
This RAID array to be used on New/Blank hard drives. Striping will destroy existing data
on the hard drive. Auto Configuration is recommended. For applications that require
custom chunk size, Manual Configuration is offered.
Auto configuration (recommended)
The default chunk size is 64k when selecting Auto configuration.
1.
As the BIOS boots press Tab when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS.
2.
At the RAID utility main menu select Create Array, press Enter.
3.
At the next screen select Auto Setup For Performance, press Enter.