Asrock ION 330HT 安装指南

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NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to configure RAID

functions by using NVIDIA RAID Utility under BIOS environment. After you make a

SATA / SATAII driver diskette, press <F2> to enter BIOS setup to set the option to

RAID mode by following the detailed instruction of the “User Manual” in our

support CD, then you can start to use NVIDIA RAID Utility to configure RAID.

This section includes examples of using NVRAID RAID Utility for creating RAID

arrays.You may choose to use RAID 0 or RAID 1 function on this motherboard.

The term “RAID” stands for “Redundant Array of Independent Disks”, which

is a method 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.

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.

Although RAID 0 function can improve the access performance, it

does not provide any fault tolerance. Hot-Plug any HDDs of the

RAID 0 Disk will cause data damage or data loss.

RAID 1 is called data mirroring that copies and maintains an identical image of

data from one drive to a second drive. It provides data protection and in-

creases 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.

This motherboard supports RAID / AHCI function under Windows

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 7 /

7 64-bit / Vista

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 / Vista

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 64-bit only. If you install Windows

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 XP / XP

64-bit, RAID / AHCI function is not available.