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– Two hard disk drives minimum

– Improved read performance and 100% redundancy

To install a secondary hard disk drive, refer to “Installing or replacing the secondary hard disk drive”

on page 46

Conguring the system BIOS to enable SATA RAID functionality

This section describes how to congure the system BIOS to enable SATA RAID functionality.

Note: Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to make selections.

To enable SATA RAID functionality, do the following:

1. Start the Setup Utility program. See “Starting the Setup Utility program” on page 83.

2. Select Devices ➙ ATA Drive Setup.

3. Select Congure SATA as and press Enter.

4. Select RAID Mode and press Enter.

5. Press F10 to save changes and exit the Setup Utility program.

Creating RAID volumes

This section describes how to use the Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM conguration utility to

create RAID volumes.

To create RAID volumes, do the following:

1. Press Ctrl+I when prompted to enter the Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM conguration utility

during system startup.

2. Use the up and down arrow keys to select Create RAID Volume and press Enter.

3. Type a proper RAID volume name in the Name eld and press Tab.

4. Use the arrow keys to select a RAID level in the RAID Level eld and press Tab.

5. If appropriate, use the arrow keys to select a stripe size in the Stripe Size eld and press Tab.

6. Type a volume size in the Capacity eld and press Tab.

7. Press Enter to initiate volume creation.

8. When prompted, press Y to accept the warning message and create the volume.

9. If desired, return to step 2 to create additional RAID volumes.

10. When nished, select Exit and press Enter.

Deleting RAID volumes

This section describes how to use the Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM conguration utility to

delete RAID volumes.

To delete RAID volumes, do the following:

1. Press Ctrl+I when prompted to enter the Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM conguration utility

during system startup.

2. Use the up and down arrow keys to select Delete RAID Volume and press Enter.

3. Use the arrow keys to select the RAID volume to be deleted and press Delete.

4. When prompted, press Y to conrm the deletion of the selected RAID volume. Deleting a RAID volume

will reset the hard disk drives to non-RAID.

5. After deleting a RAID volume, you can:

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