Asrock K7NF2-RAID RAID Utility free download

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RAID Utility for Windows 1. Enter NVRAIDMAN RAID driver is built in nVidia ALL in one driver provided in ASRock sup port CD. After you finish the driver installation, you can create, delete, or rebuild any RAID array. Please enter NVRAIDMAN by clicking on Start Programs NVIDIA Corporation RAID Manager RAID Manager. Then, the below screen appears. 1 2. Creating RAID Arrays Creating RAID 0 (Striping) NVRAIDMAN can be used to create a striped array from one disk up to the maximum supported number of disks in the system. To create a two- disk Striped Array do the following. 1. Go to the system BIOS and make sure that the drives that you want to use are RAID enabled. 2. Boot to Windows and launch the NVRAIDMAN application. 3. Create Array and the following screen will appear. 2 4. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 5. Click the RAID Mode list arrow and select Striping, and leave the "Stripe Size" with its default value as shown in the following screen shot. 3 6. Click Next, and the following screen shot will appear. 7. Select the two disks that you want to include in the stripe set. To create a striped array with more disks, select additional disks from the list. 4 8. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 9. Click Finish and the following screen shot will appear. The RAID 0 is created successfully. 5 Creating RAID 1 (Mirroring) The NVRAIDMAN application can be used to create a Mirror Array. By definition, a mirrored array consists of two drives. Data is written to both two drives, and if one drive fails then data can be recovered from the other drive. To create a Mirrored Array, do the following. 1. Go to the system BIOS and make sure that the drives that you want to use are RAID enabled. 2. Boot to Windows and launch the NVRAIDMAN application, then click on Create Array and the following screen will appear. 6 3. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 4. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 7 5. Select the two drives that you want to use in the Mirrored array. 6. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 8 7. If you want to start rebuilding the array right away (copy data from one disk to the other), select the disk that you wish to preserve. Do not select a disk if you do not want to rebuild the array at this time. 8. Click Next and the following screen shot appears. 9. Click Finish. If you selected a disk to preserve in step 7, the rebuilding process begins. A mirrored array has been created, while the other two disks are set to free disks. 9 Creating JBOD (Spanning) NV