MSI X58 Pro-E seres - Introduction to SATA RAID

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Intel ICH10R SATA RAID ▍
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Intel ICH10R SATA RAID ▍
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introduction
The ICH10R provdes a hybrd soluton that combnes 6 ndependent SATAII ports for
support of up to 6 Seral ATAII (Seral ATAII RAID) drves.
Seral ATAII (SATAII) s the latest generaton of the ATA nterface. SATA hard drves
delver blsterng transfer speeds up to 3 Gb/s. Seral ATA uses long, thn cables, mak
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ng t easer to connect your drve and mprovng the ar󰘱ow nsde your PC. The most
outstandng features are:
Supports 3 Gb/s transfers wth CRC error checkng.
Supports Hot-plug-n-play feature.
Data handlng optmzatons ncludng tagged command queung, elevator seek and
packet chan command.
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ICH10R o󰘯ers RAID level 0 (Strpng), RAID level 1 (Mrrorng and Duplexng),
RAID level 5 (Block Interleaved Dstrbuted Party), RAID level 10 (A Strpe of Mrrors) ,
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Martx Storage Technology and Intel
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Rapd Recover Technology.
RAID 0 breaks the data nto blocks whch are wrtten to separate hard drves. Spread
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ng the hard drve I/O load across ndependent channels greatly mproves I/O perfor-
mance.
RAID 1 provdes data redundancy by mrrorng data between the hard drves and pro
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vdes enhanced read performance.
RAID 5 Provdes data strpng at the byte level and also strpe error correcton nforma
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ton. Ths results n excellent performance and good fault tolerance. Level 5 s one of the
most popular mplementatons of RAID.
RAID 10 Not one of the orgnal RAID levels, multple RAID 1 mrrors are created, and a
RAID 0 strpe s created over these.
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Matrx RAID Technology s the advanced ablty for two RAID volumes to share the
combned space of two hard drves beng used n unson.
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Rapd Recover Technology utlzes RAID 1 functonalty to copy data from a des-
gnated Master drve to a desgnated Recovery drve. The sze of the Master drve must
be less than or equal to the sze of the Recovery drve. When a Recovery volume s
created, complete capacty of the Master drve wll be used as the Master volume. Only
one Recovery Volume can exst on a system. There are 2 methods of updatng the
data on the Master to the Recovery drve. They are Contnuous Update Polcy and On
Request Update Polcy.
Important
The least number of hard drves for RAID 0, RAID 1, Recovery or Matrx mode s 2. The
least number of hard drves for RAID 10 mode s 4. And the least number of hard drves
for RAID 5 mode s 3.
All the nformaton/ volumes/ pctures lsted n your system mght d󰘯er from the llustra
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tons n ths appendx.
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