ASROCK Z77 Extreme9 Manuals

1 VIRTU Universal MVP Installation Guide

1 Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration 1. Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation...............................2 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation.................2 2. Guide to RAID Configurations............................................3 2.1 Introduction of RAID..................................................3 2.2 RAID Configuration Precautions...............................5 2.3 Installing Windows ® 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista TM / Vista TM 64-bit With RAID Functions...........................6 2.4 Installing Windows ® XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions.................................................6 2.5 Setting the BIOS RAID Items....................................9 2.6 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS...............................9 2.7 Deleting RAID Volumes...........................................13

1 Guide to Intel Rapid Storage Overview Intel® Rapid Storage Technology provides new levels of protection, performance, and expandability for desktop and mobile platforms. Whether using one or multiple hard drives, users can take advantage of enhanced performance and lower power consumption. When using more than one drive, the user can have additional protection against data loss in the event of a hard drive failure. Starting with version 9.5, a brand new user interface makes creating and managing your storage simple and intuitive. Combined with Intel® Rapid Recover Technology, setting up data protection can be accomplished easily with an external drive. Valuable digital memories are protected against a hard drive failure when the system is configured for any one of three fault-tolerant RAID levels: RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10. By seamlessly storing copies of data on one or more additional hard drives, any hard drive can fail without data loss or system downtime. When the failed drive is removed and a replacement hard drive is installed, data fault tolerance is easily restored. Intel Rapid Storage Technology can also improve the performance of disk intensive retrieval applications such as editing home video. By combining from two to six drives in a RAID 0 configuration, data can be accessed on each drive simultaneously, speeding up response time on data-intensive applications. Also, due to drive load balancing, even systems with RAID 1 can take advantage of faster boot times and data reads. Intel Rapid Storage Technology provides benefits to users of a single drive as well. Through AHCI, storage performance is improved through Native Command Queuing (NCQ). AHCI also delivers longer battery life with Link Power Management (LPM), which can reduce the power consumption of the chipset and Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive.

Intel Smart Response Technology Installation Guide This motherboard supports Intel Smart Response Technology. You can find the UI setup instruction and the step by step instructions below. UI setup instruction: 1. Complete initial system setup, including installing the OS to a RAID mode system, then install all required drivers, including RST storage driver version 10.5 or later. 2. You MUST have both the HDD you intend to accelerate AND the SSD in system at this point! 3. Boot system to desktop, open RST GUI from either Start Menu or by double-clicking RST Storage icon in Icon tray, lower right-hand corner of the screen. 4. Once open, click on the “Enable Acceleration” button on the GUI panel. 5. When pop-up menu appears, chose which SSD you wish to use as the Cache device, which HDD you wish to Accelerate, if you want to use the full SSD as Cache device or only 20GB, and if you want to use Enhanced or Maximized Mode. 6. For all performance testing, chose “Maximized” mode. 7. After clicking OK button, SRT will enable automatically, and the RST GUI will refresh to show the newly accelerated system configuration. * Intel® will update the new version RST driver in the near future. For the new version RST driver, please check our website for the latest information: http://www.asrock.com * Before you use RST function, you just need to set the UEFI option “SATA Mode” to [RAID Mode]. It is not necessary to build RAID 0 or RAID 1 in RAID ROM.

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