MSI RD480 Neo2 - Manual (Page 119)

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MS-7194 ATX Mainboard
M ain M enu
In Main Menu, the user has several options to operate RAID:
w Create RAID 0 Stripe x2 for Performance
1. Press ‘Enter’ key to activate this item. An ‘S’ flash cursor appears at the Drive
Select Menu for the user to choose the first drive for RAID 0.
2. Use ‘Space’ key to choose the desired drive for RAID 0. Then the flash cursor
changes to an ‘s’ flash cursor for the user to choose the second drive for RAID
0.
3. The prompt ‘Data on RAID Drives will be deleted (Y/N)’ appears after two drives
are properly assigned.
4. Press ‘Y’, and then some necessary information will be written to the drives,
which will destroy the original data in the drives.
5. Next, the Array Name input line appears for the user to key in a name for the
newly created array. The effective characters for an array name is
‘0’-‘9’, ‘A’-‘Z’,
‘a’-‘z’, space and underscore.
6. After the RAID array has been created successfully, its information shows up at
RAID Array List.
w Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability
1. Press ‘Enter’ key to activate this item. An ‘M’ flash cursor appears at the ‘Drive
Select Menu ’ for the user to choose the first (source) drive for RAID 1.
2. Use ‘Space’ key to choose the desired drive for RAID 1. Then flash cursor
changes to an ‘m’ flash cursor for the user to choose the second (target) drive
for RAID 1.
3. The prompt ‘Create RAID 1(Y/N)’ appears after two drives are properly assigned.
4. Press ‘Y’, and then some necessary information will be written to drives, which
may destroy the original data in the drives.
5. Next, the Array Name input line appears for the user to key in a name for the
newly created array. The effective characters for an array name is
‘0’-‘9’, ‘A’-‘Z’,
‘a’-‘z’, space and underscore.
6. Lastly a prompt message ‘Duplicate Data from M to m (Y/N)?’ asks whether to do
drive copy. The source and target drives are indicated by ‘M’ and ‘m’ in ‘Drive
Select Menu ’ respectively. Pressing ‘Y’ will duplicate the data in source drive to
the target drive. Make sure the source drive is the correct one. If you press ‘N’,
then the data is inconsistent in two drives.
MSI Reminds You...
It is recommended to use new drives to create RAID 1. If existing drive
is to be used, backup all necessary data before creating RAID 1.
MSI Reminds You...
Make sure the data in drives is no longer in use before creating RAID 0.