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NVRAID Quick Start Guide

Leave the

Stripe Size

set to 64 K as shown in Figure 8 and click on

Next

The following screen should be displayed.

Figure 9. Free Disk Selection

Select the

drivers

that you want to use for the two disk strip set by clicking to

the left of the name of each drive as shown in the following screen shot.

Figure 10. Drivers Selected

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Summary of Contents for NVRAID -

Page 1: ...Quick Start Guide NVRAID Quick Start Guide...

Page 2: ...e the hard disks that are to be RAID enabled in the system BIOS Run the Windows ForceWare Setup application and install the RAID software Configure the RAID 0 array using the NVRAIDMAN Initialize the...

Page 3: ...setup The BIOS CMOS Setup Utility window displays Figure 1 BIOS CMOS Setup Utility Main Window 2 Use the arrow keys to select Integrated Peripherals and then press Enter The Integrated Peripherals win...

Page 4: ...Figure 3 RAID Config Window 4 From the RAID Config window enable RAID 5 Enable the disks that you want to use as RAID disks In this example you need to enable the SATA ports that are connected to your...

Page 5: ...nstall the RAID software Launch nForce ForceWare by double clicking on Setup to display the NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers window Figure 4 Figure 4 NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers Make sure that the NVID...

Page 6: ...C has been rebooted 1 Click on Start Programs NVIDIA Corporation RAID Manager 2 Select RAID Manager to display the nvraid screen Figure 5 Figure 5 nvraid Configuration Screen 3 Click Create Array to d...

Page 7: ...t Guide 4 Click on Next Figure 7 RAID Array Selection 5 Click on Mirroring and select Striping from the dropdown list as shown in Figure 8 Figure 8 RAID Array Selection DU 01628 001_v01 6 NVIDIA CONFI...

Page 8: ...he following screen should be displayed Figure 9 Free Disk Selection 7 Select the drivers that you want to use for the two disk strip set by clicking to the left of the name of each drive as shown in...

Page 9: ...Figure 11 Two Disk Striped Array You now have a two disk striped array with a total size of 153 38 GB However the array can not be used yet since you need to create a partition and format that partiti...

Page 10: ...ted it needs to be partitioned and formatted 1 Click on Start Settings Control Panel 2 Double click on Administrative Tools 3 Double click on Computer Management 4 Click on Disk Management The followi...

Page 11: ...te a partition on it right click on the Unallocated partition and select New Partition Figure 13 Creating a New Partition 6 Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the partition Once that is d...

Page 12: ...ghts of third parties that may result from its use No license is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent or patent rights of NVIDIA Corporation Specifications mentioned in this publicatio...