Gigabyte GA-VM900M - RAID Array Block Size and Creation

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After selecting a RAID mode, you must decide whether you want the RAID array to be configured

automatically or manually. Auto Setup allows BIOS to assign the hard drives and create arrays

automatically. It is recommended all hard drives are new ones when you want to create an array.

To manually configure the RAID array, the following items need to be set.

Select Disk Drives lets users select the array drives by their requirements. Select the Select Disk

Drives item and press ENTER. On the target hard drive(s), press ENTER. The selected hard drives

will be marked with an asterisk (Figure 7).

Next, select Start Create Process and press ENTER. The prompt "The data on the selected disks

will be destroyed. Continue? (Y/N)" will appear. Press Y to confirm or N to abort.

Important All existing contents in the hard drive will be destroyed after the array creation.

Figure 7

For a RAID 0 array, you have to specify the block size. Select Stripe Size and press ENTER. Select

the block size from the popup menu. The block size can be set from 4KB to 64KB (Figure 8).

Figure 8

Dev. Posi. Drive Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status

[*] Channel0 Master ST3120026AS SATA 111.79 Stripe0

[*] Channel1 Master ST3120026AS SATA 111.79 Stripe1

Create a RAID array with

the hard disks attached to

VIA RAID controller

F1 : View Array/disk Status

K ,

L : Move to next item

Enter : Confirm the selection

ESC : Exit

X Auto Setup For Performance

X Array Mode RAID 0 (Striping)

X Select Disk Drives

X Stripe Size 64K

X Start Create Process

VIA VT8237S V-RAID Utility V1.20