Dell Latitude 5424 Rugged - Intel Rapid Storage Technology; Installation Instructions

Identifying the hard drive in the BIOS
1 Turn on or restart your system.
2 When the Dell logo appears, perform the following action to enter the BIOS setup program:
• With keyboard — Tap F2 until the Entering BIOS setup message appears. To enter the Boot selection menu, tap F12.
The hard drive is listed under the System Information under the General group.
Intel Rapid Storage Technology
Overview
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology provides new levels of protection, performance, and expandability for desktop and mobile platforms.
Whether using one or multiple hard drives, users can take advantage of enhanced performance and lower power consumption. When using
more than one drive, the user can have additional protection against data loss in the event of a hard drive failure.
Intel Rapid Storage Technology was formerly known as Intel® Matrix Storage Manager. Starting with version 9.5, a brand new user
interface makes creating and managing your storage simple and intuitive. Combined with Intel Rapid Recover Technology, setting up data
protection can be accomplished easily with an external drive.
Valuable digital memories are protected against a hard drive failure when the system is congured for any one of three fault-tolerant RAID
levels: RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10. By seamlessly storing copies of data on one or more additional hard drives, any hard drive can fail
without data loss or system downtime. When the failed drive is removed and a replacement hard drive is installed, data fault tolerance is
easily restored.
Intel Rapid Storage Technology can also improve the performance of disk intensive retrieval applications such as editing home video. By
combining from two to six drives in a RAID 0 conguration, data can be accessed on each drive simultaneously, speeding up response time
on data-intensive applications. Also, due to drive load balancing, even systems with RAID 1 can take advantage of faster boot times and
data reads.
Intel Rapid Storage Technology provides benets to users of a single drive as well. Through AHCI, storage performance is improved through
Native Command Queuing (NCQ). AHCI also delivers longer battery life with Link Power Management (LPM), which can reduce the power
consumption of the chipset and Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive.
Installation Instructions
The Intel Rapid Storage Technology software can be install through the Resource DVD provided with the system. When you rst launch the
installation le, you'll get the rst screen as below:
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