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Conguring SATA Hard Drive(s)

Chapter3 ConguringSATAHardDrive(s)

(Note1) SkipthisstepifyoudonotwanttocreateRAIDarrayontheSATAcontroller.

(Note2) RequiredwhentheSATAcontrollerissettoAHCIorRAIDmode.

RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10

Minimum

Number of Hard

Drives

≥2 2 ≥3 ≥4

Array Capacity Number of hard

drives*Sizeofthe

smallest drive

Sizeofthesmallest

drive

(Numberofhard

drives-1)*Sizeof

the smallest drive

(Numberofhard

drives/2)*Sizeofthe

smallest drive

Fault Tolerance No Yes Yes Yes

RAID Levels

TocongureSATAharddrive(s),followthestepsbelow:

A. InstallSATAharddrive(s)inyourcomputer.

B. CongureSATAcontrollermodeinBIOSSetup.

C. CongureaRAIDarrayinRAIDBIOS

(Note1)

D. Install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver and operating system

(Note2)

Before you begin

• AtleasttwoSATAharddrives(toensureoptimalperformance,itisrecommendedthatyouusetwoharddrives

withidenticalmodelandcapacity).IfyoudonotwanttocreateRAID,youmayprepareonlyoneharddrive.

• Windows setup disk.

• Motherboard driver disk.

• AUSBashdrive.

3-1 ConguringSATAControllers

A.InstallingSATAharddrive(s)inyourcomputer

Attach one end of the SATA signal cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other end to available SATA

port on the motherboard. Then connect the power connector from your power supply to the hard drive.

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