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5.4 RAID congurations
The motherboard comes with the NVIDIA
®
SLI Southbridge RAID controllers
that allow you to congure IDE and Serial ATA hard disk drives as RAID
sets. The motherboard supports the following RAID congurations.
RAID 0
(Data striping)
optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and
write data in parallel, interleaved stacks. Two hard disks perform the same
work as a single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate, double that
of a single disk alone, thus improving data access and storage. Use of two
new identical hard disk drives is required for this setup.
RAID 1
(Data mirroring
) copies and maintains an identical image of
data from one drive to a second drive. If one drive fails, the disk array
management software directs all applications to the surviving drive as
it contains a complete copy of the data in the other drive. This RAID
conguration provides data protection and increases fault tolerance to the
entire system. Use two new drives or use an existing drive and a new drive
for this setup. The new drive must be of the same size or larger than the
existing drive.
RAID 0+1 is
data striping
and
data mirroring
combined without parity
(redundancy data) having to be calculated and written. With the RAID
0+1 conguration you get all the benets of both RAID 0 and RAID 1
congurations. Use four new hard disk drives or use an existing drive and
three new drives for this setup.
RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard
disk drives. Among the advantages of RAID 5 conguration include better
HDD performance, fault tolerance, and higher storage capacity. The RAID 5
conguration is best suited for transaction processing, relational database
applications, enterprise resource planning, and other business systems.
Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives for this setup.
RAID 1+0 is a striped conguration with each stripe a RAID 1 array of
drives. It combines the features of both RAID 1 and RAID 0. Fault tolerance
is provided through
mirroring
while adding performance through
striping
.
This offers higher performance than a RAID 1 conguration but at a much
higher cost. A minimum of four hard disk drives is required for this setup.
JBOD
(Spanning)
stands for Just a Bunch of Disks and refers to hard disk
drives that are not yet congured as a RAID set. This conguration stores
the same data redundantly on multiple disks that appear as a single disk on
the operating system. Spanning does not deliver any advantage over using
separate disks independently and does not provide fault tolerance or other
RAID performance benets.
- Motherboard 1
- First Edition 2
- October 2006 2
- Contents 3
- Safety information 8
- About this guide 9
- Typography 10
- (continued on the next page) 11
- Product 13
- 1.1 Welcome! 15
- 1.2 Package contents 15
- 1.3 Special features 16
- Serial ATA 3Gb/s RAID 17
- PCI Express™ interface 17
- S/PDIF digital sound ready 17
- USB 2.0 technology 17
- IEEE 1394a support 17
- 1.3.2 ASUS Special features 18
- Hardware 19
- 2.1 Before you proceed 21
- M2N-E SLI 22
- 2.2.3 Motherboard layout 23
- 2.2.4 Layout Contents 24
- Gold triangle 26
- Small triangle 26
- Retention Module Base 27
- CPU Heatsink 27
- Qualied Vendors List 32
- DDR2-800 32
- DDR2-667 33
- DDR2-533 34
- 2.4.3 Installing a DIMM 35
- 2.4.4 Removing a DIMM 35
- 2.5 Expansion slots 36
- 2.5.3 Interrupt assignments 37
- 2.5.4 PCI slots 37
- 2.5.5 PCI Express x1 slot 38
- 2.5.6 PCI Express x16 slots 38
- Clear RTC 39
- (Default) 39
- 2.7 Connectors 42
- Orient the red markings on 44
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 2-31 51
- Powering up 53
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 3-1 55
- 3-2 Chapter 3: Powering up 56
- BIOS setup 57
- DOS environment 59
- XP environment 59
- 2000 environment 59
- 4.1.2 Updating the BIOS 60
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 4-3 61
- 4-4 Chapter 4: BIOS s e tup 62
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 4-7 65
- 4.1.6 ASUS Update utility 66
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 4-9 67
- 4.2 BIOS setup program 69
- 4.2.2 Menu bar 70
- 4.2.1 BIOS menu screen 70
- 4.2.4 Menu items 71
- 4.2.5 Sub-menu items 71
- 4.2.6 Configuration fields 71
- 4.2.3 Legend bar 71
- 4.2.7 Pop-up window 72
- 4.2.8 General help 72
- 4.3 Main menu 73
- Access Mode [Auto] 74
- 4.3.6 SATA 1, 2, 3, 4 76
- 4.3.8 Installed Memory 77
- 4.4 Advanced menu 78
- Overclock Profile [Auto] 79
- PCI Express Clock [100MHz] 79
- DDR2 Voltage [Auto] 79
- CPU Multiplier [Auto] 79
- CPU Voltage [Auto] 80
- 4.4.3 CPU Configuration 81
- DRAM Timing Control 82
- Tcl[Auto] 82
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 4-25 83
- 4.4.4 PCIPnP 84
- IDE Function Setup 85
- 4-28 Chapter 4: BIOS s e tup 86
- NVRAID Configuration 87
- USB Configuration 88
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 4-31 89
- 4.4.6 SLI Configuration 90
- 4.5 Power menu 91
- 4.5.3 APM Configuration 92
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 4-35 93
- 4.5.4 Hardware Monitor 94
- 12V Voltage[11.90V] 95
- 4.6 Boot menu 96
- 4.6.2 Removable Drives 97
- Case Open Warning [Enabled] 98
- Quick Boot [Enabled] 98
- 4.6.4 Security 100
- Password Check 101
- 4.7 Tools menu 102
- 4.8 Exit menu 103
- Load Setup Defaults 104
- Discard Changes 104
- Software 105
- Chapter summary 106
- 5.2 Support CD information 107
- 5.2.2 Drivers menu 108
- 5.2.3 Utilities menu 109
- 5.2.4 Make Disk menu 110
- 5.2.5 Manuals menu 111
- 5.2.7 Other information 112
- Browse this CD 113
- Technical support Form 113
- Filelist 114
- 5.3 Software information 115
- 5.3.2 ASUS PC Probe II 117
- Preferences 118
- Hardware monitor panels 119
- WMI browser 120
- DMI browser 120
- PCI browser 121
- Configuring PC Probe II 122
- 5.4 RAID congurations 123
- 5.4.1 Installing hard disks 124
- 5.4.2 NVIDIA 125
- RAID configurations 125
- Entering the NVIDIA 126
- RAID utility 126
- Creating a RAID Volume 126
- Rebuilding a RAID array 128
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 5-23 129
- Deleting a RAID array 130
- Clearing a disk data 131
- PCI Express graphics cards 133
- 6.1 Overview 135
- 6.2 Dual graphics card setup 136
- ASUS M2N-E SLI 137
- Chapter 6: NVIDIA 138
- SLI™ technology support 138
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