MSI MS-7252 - Introduction; System Requirement; RAID Arrays; Summary of RAID Configurations

MS-7252 Mainboard
B-2
Introduction
System Requirement
Operating System Support
NVRAID supports the following operating systems:
Windows XP
Windows 2000 Professional
RAID Arrays
NVRAID supports the following types of RAID arrays described in this section:
RAID 0: RAID 0 defines a disk striping scheme that improves the disk read and write
times for many applications.
RAID 1: RAID 1 defines techniques for mirroring data.
Summary of RAID Configurations
Array Uses Advantages Drawbacks # Hard
Disks
Fault
Tolerance
RAID 0 Non-critical data
requiring high
performance.
High data throughput. No fault tolerance. multiple None
RAID 1 Small databases or any
other small capacity
environment requiring
fault tolerance.
100% data
redundancy.
Requires 2 drives for
the storage space of 1
drive.
2 Yes