ASROCK B75TM-ITX Quick Start Manual download pdf (Page 2)

1. IntroductionofRAID

Thismotherboardadoptsa chipsetthatsupportsRAID.

Theterm“RAID”standsfor“RedundantArrayofInde-

pendentDisks”,whichisamethodofcombiningtwoor

moreharddiskdrivesintoonelogicalunit.Foroptimal

performance,pleaseinstallidenticaldrivesofthesame

modelandcapacitywhencreatingaRAIDset.Thefol-

lowingarecommonexamplesofRAID.Pleasereferto

theusermanualforthetypesofRAIDyourmotherboard

supports,andnoticethatotherrequirementssuchasa

RAIDsupportingdiskdriveandoperatingsystemare

alsocrucialforcreatingaRAIDvolume.

RAID 0 (Data Striping)

RAID0iscalleddatastripingthatoptimizes

twoidenticalharddiskdrivestoreadand

writedatainparallel,interleavedstacks.

Itwillimprovedataaccessandstorage

sinceitwilldoublethedatatransferrateof

asinglediskalonewhilethetwoharddisks

performthesameworkasasingledrive,

butatasustaineddatatransferrateandit

hasnofaulttolerance.

RAID 1 (Data Mirroring)

RAID1iscalleddatamirroringthatcopies

andmaintainsanidenticalimageofdata

fromonedrivetoaseconddrive.Itpro-

videsdataprotectionandincreasesfault

tolerancetotheentiresystemsincethe

diskarraymanagementsoftwarewilldirect

allapplicationstothesurvivingdriveasit

containsacompletecopyofthedatainthe

otherdriveifonedrivefails.

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