MSI Z77A-GD65 GAMING series User Manual

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Intel RAID
Introducton
The motherboard comes wth the Intel RAID controller that allows you to con󰘰gure
SATA hard drves as RAID sets.
SATA hard drves delver blsterng transfer speeds up to 6 Gb/s. Seral ATA uses long,
thn cables, mak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 or 6 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.
Intel
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RAID controller 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r-
rors) , Intel
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Rapd Storage 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.
Intel
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Rapd Storage 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.
Intel
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Rapd Storage 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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MSI Z77A-GD65 GAMING series Specifications

General

Chipset	Intel Z77
CPU Socket	LGA 1155
Memory Type	DDR3
Max Memory	32GB
PCI Express x16	3
PCI Express x1	4
Form Factor	ATX
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 5, 10
Multi-GPU Support	NVIDIA SLI, AMD CrossFireX
Memory Slots	4
Additional SATA Ports	2 x SATA 6Gb/s
USB 3.0 Ports	4
USB 2.0 Ports	8
LAN	1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps
Audio	Realtek ALC898
Memory Standard	DDR3 1066/1333/1600/1866/2133(OC)
SATA Ports	2 x SATA III 6Gb/s, 4 x SATA II 3Gb/s