System Software; Hdd Raid Support; Raid Setup For Windows 8 - Clevo P370EM Manual Del Usuario

System Software

Your computer may already come with system software
pre-installed. Where this is not the case, or where you are
re-configuring your computer for a different system, you
will find this manual refers to Microsoft Windows 7 and
8.

HDD RAID Support

Your hard disk(s) can be set up in AHCI mode or RAID
mode (for increased performance or protection). Note that
setting up your hard disk(s) in RAID mode needs to be
done prior to installing the Windows OS.

RAID Setup for Windows 8

See RAID Setup for Windows 8 on page
RAID Setup for Windows 7
Refer to the expanded User's Manual on the Device Driv-
ers & Utilities + User's Manual disc.
RAID Setup for Windows 8
You may use your hard disks in combination with Striping
(RAID 0), Mirroring (RAID 1) or Recovery for either
fault tolerance or performance.
RAID Level
RAID 0
(at lease two
hard disks
needed)
RAID 1
(at lease two
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hard disks
needed)
Recovery
(at lease two
hard disks
needed)
Description
Identical drives reading and writing data in par-
allel to increase performance. RAID 0 imple-
ments a striped disk array and the data is
broken into blocks and each block is written to
a separate disk drive.
Identical drives in a mirrored configuration used
to protect data. Should a drive that is part of a
mirrored array fail, the mirrored drive (which
contains identical data) will handle all the data.
When a new replacement drive is installed,
data to the new drive is rebuilt from the mir-
rored drive to restore fault tolerance.
Two Identical drives copying data between a
master and a recovery disk. This provides more
control over how data is copied between the
master and recovery drives, fast volume updates
and the ability to view the data in Windows
Explorer.
Table 1 - RAID Description
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