Asus Z170-PRO User Manual

ASUS Z170-PRO Series
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Chapter 5
RAID Support
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Chapter 5: RAID Support
5.1 RAID configurations
The motherboard supports Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10,
and RAID 5 solution.
If you want to install a Windows
®
operating system to a hard disk drive included in a RAID
set, you have to create a RAID driver disk and load the RAID driver during OS installation.
Refer to section 5.2 Creating a RAID driver disk for details.
5.1.1 RAID definitions
RAID 0 (Data striping) optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write data in
parallel, interleaved stacks. Two hard disks perform the same work as a single drive but at a
sustained data transfer rate, double that of a single disk alone, thus improving data access
and storage. Use of two new identical hard disk drives is required for this setup.
RAID 1 (Data mirroring) copies and maintains an identical image of data from one drive to
a second drive. If one drive fails, the disk array management software directs all applications
to the surviving drive as it contains a complete copy of the data in the other drive. This RAID
congurationprovidesdataprotectionandincreasesfaulttolerancetotheentiresystem.Use
two new drives or use an existing drive and a new drive for this setup. The new drive must be
of the same size or larger than the existing drive.
RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives. Among
theadvantagesofRAID5congurationincludebetterHDDperformance,faulttolerance,and
higherstoragecapacity.TheRAID5congurationisbestsuitedfortransactionprocessing,
relational database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other business systems.
Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives for this setup.
RAID 10 is data striping and data mirroring combined without parity (redundancy data) having
tobecalculatedandwritten.WiththeRAID10congurationyougetallthebenetsofboth
RAID0andRAID1congurations.Usefournewharddiskdrivesoruseanexistingdrive
and three new drives for this setup.

Asus Z170-PRO Specifications

General

Chipset	Intel Z170
Socket	LGA 1151
Form Factor	ATX
Memory Slots	4 x DIMM
Max Memory	64 GB
Memory Type	DDR4
Audio	Realtek ALC1150 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 5, 10
Multi-GPU Support	NVIDIA 2-Way SLI, AMD 3-Way CrossFireX
Memory Speed	2133 MHz
PCIe Slots	3 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x1
Storage Interfaces	1 x M.2, 1 x SATA Express, 6 x SATA 6Gb/s
USB Ports	1 x USB 3.1 Type-A, 1 x USB 3.1 Type-C, 6 x USB 3.0, 6 x USB 2.0
Networking	Intel I219V