Install Silicon Serial ATA RAID Driver E-3
BIOS Setup for Silicon Serial
ATA RAID
This motherboard supports the RAID operation
of “Striping (RAID 0)”, “Mirroring (RAID
1)”, or “Striping/Mirroring (RAID 0+1)” via
Silicon Serial ATA controller. For the striping
operation, the identical drives can read and
write data in parallel to increase system
performance. The Mirroring operation creates a
complete backup of your files. Striping with
Mirroring operation offers both read/write
performance and fault tolerance.
RAID Configuration Utility
Menu
Main Menu
Reboot your system. Press <CTRL> + <S> or
<F4> key while booting up the system to enter
the BIOS setting menu. The main menu of
BIOS Setting Utility appears as shown below:
To select the option in this menu, you may:
• Press <↑↓> (up, down arrow) to choose
the option you want to confirm or to
modify.
• Press <Enter> to confirm the selection.
• Press <Esc> to return to previous menu.
• Press <Ctrl-E> to exit the RAID
configuration utility.
NOTE: If you want to create a RAID 0 (striping)
array or RAID 0+1 array, all the data stored in
the hard disks will first be erased! Please
backup the hard disk data before starting to
create these RAID arrays.
If you want to create a RAID 1 (mirroring) array,
please make sure which hard disk is the source
disk and which one is the destination disk. If
you make a mistake, you may copy the blank
data to the source disk, which will result in both
hard disks becoming blank!
Option 1
Create RAID set
This item allows you to create a RAID array.
NOTE: It is highly recommended to attach hard
disks with the same model in reaching the
RAID performance.
RAID0: This item is recommended for high
performance usage. Requires at least 2 disks.
RAID1: This item is recommended for data
security usage. Requires at least 2 disks.
RAID10: This item is recommended for data
security and high performance usage. Allows
Mirroring with a Strip Array. Require 4 disks.
User’s Manual
