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The Intel HostRAID Conﬁ gurations

The following types of Intel's HostRAID conﬁ gurations are supported:

RAID 0 (Data Striping): this writes data in parallel, interleaved ("striped") sections

of two hard drives. Data transfer rate is doubled over using a single disk.

RAID1 (Data Mirroring): an identical data image from one drive is copied to another

drive. The second drive must be the same size or larger than the ﬁ rst drive.

RAID 10 (Striping & Mirroring): RAID 0 and 1 schemes are combined (without parity

information) to get the beneﬁ ts of both.

RAID 5: both data and parity information are striped and mirrored across three or

more hard drives.

The Intel Matrix Storage

The Intel Matrix Storage, supported by the ESB2, allows the user to create RAID

0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and RAID 5 sets by using only four identical hard disk drives.

The Intel Matrix Storage Technology creates two partitions on each hard disk drive

and generate a virtual RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and RAID 5 sets. It also allows

you the change the HDD partition size without any data.

Conﬁ guring BIOS settings for SATA RAID Functions (Native Mode)

1. Press the <Del> key during system bootup to enter the BIOS Setup Utility.

Note: If it is the ﬁ rst time powering on the system, we recommend you load the

Optimized Default Settings. If you have already done so, please skip to Step 3.

2. Use the arrow keys to select the "Exit" Settings. Once in the "Exit" settings,

Scroll down to select "Load Optimized Default Settings" and press the <Enter>

key. Select "OK" to conﬁ rm the selection. Press the <Enter> key to load the default

settings for the BIOS.

3. Use the arrow keys to select the "Main" section in BIOS.

4. Scroll down to "SATA Controller Mode" and press the <Enter> key to select

"Enhanced"

5. Scroll down to "SATA RAID Enabled" and press <Enter>. Then, select "En-

abled."

6. Scroll down to "Exit". Select "Save and Exit" from the "Exit" menu. Press the

<Enter> key to save the changes and exit the BIOS.

7. Once you've exited the BIOS Utility, the system will re-boot.

8. During the system boot-up, press the <Ctrl> and <I> keys simultaneously to run

the Intel RAID Conﬁ guration Utility when prompted by the following message: Press

<Ctrl> <I> for the Intel RAID Conﬁ guration Utility.

Note: The Intel RAID Conﬁ guration Utility is only available for systems with two or

more drives installed. The Intel RAID Utility screen will not display in systems with

one drive installed.

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