RAID Setup
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
Identical drives reading and writing data in par-
allel to increase performance. RAID 0 imple-
(at lease two
ments a striped disk array and the data is
hard disks
broken into blocks and each block is written to
needed)
a separate disk drive.
Identical drives in a mirrored configuration used
RAID 1
to protect data. Should a drive that is part of a
mirrored array fail, the mirrored drive (which
(at lease two
contains identical data) will handle all the data.
hard disks
When a new replacement drive is installed,
needed)
data to the new drive is rebuilt from the mir-
rored drive to restore fault tolerance.
Two Identical drives copying data between a
Recovery
master and a recovery disk. This provides more
control over how data is copied between the
(at lease two
master and recovery drives, fast volume updates
hard disks
and the ability to view the data in Windows
needed)
Explorer.
Table 2 - RAID Description
Description
Prepare the following before setting up your serial ATA
hard disks in RAID mode:
1.
The Microsoft Windows 8 OS disc.
2.
A hard disk installed in the Primary HDD bay.
3.
A second (identical) hard disk installed in the Secondary HDD
bay.
4.
The Device Drivers & Utilities + User's Manual disc.
5.
A USB flash drive.
6.
An operable computer (to copy files from the Device Drivers &
Utilities + User's Manual disc to the USB flash drive).
Note: All hard disks in a RAID should be identical (the
same size and brand) in order to prevent unexpected sys-
tem behavior.
RAID Setup Procedure
Before setting up the system you will need to copy a driver
folder (on the Device Drivers & Utilities + User's Manual
disc) to a USB flash drive or external USB hard disk.
However you will need to go to an operable computer and
copy the driver folder to a USB flash drive or external
USB hard disk.
1.
Go to the operable computer and insert a USB flash drive or
external USB hard disk.
2.
Insert the Device Drivers & Utilities + User's Manual disc into
the CD/DVD drive of the operable computer.
3.
Copy the f6flpy-x64 folder from the location below (D: denotes
your DVD drive) on the Device Drivers & Utilities + User's
Manual disc to the USB flash drive or external USB hard disk.
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