RAID Setup
You may use your hard disks/SSDs in combination with
Striping (RAID 0) or Mirroring (RAID 1) for either fault
tolerance or performance.
RAID Level
RAID 0
Identical drives reading and writing data in
(at lease two
parallel to increase performance. RAID 0
hard disks/
implements a striped disk array and the data is
SSDs
broken into blocks and each block is written to
needed)
a separate disk drive.
Identical drives in a mirrored configuration
RAID 1
used to protect data. Should a drive that is
(at lease two
part of a mirrored array fail, the mirrored drive
hard disks/
(which contains identical data) will handle all
SSDs
the data. When a new replacement drive is
needed)
installed, data to the new drive is rebuilt from
the mirrored drive to restore fault tolerance.
Table 2 - RAID Description
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Description
Prepare the following before setting up your serial ATA
hard disks/SSDs in RAID mode:
• The Microsoft Windows OS disc.
• A hard disk installed in the Primary HDD bay and a second
(identical) hard disk installed in the Secondary HDD bay.
Or
Two Identical solid state drives.
• The Device Drivers & Utilities + User's Manual disc.
Note: All hard disks/SSDs in a RAID should be identical
(the same size and brand) in order to prevent unexpected
system behavior.