Asus P5Q Deluxe User Manual

4-60 Chapter 4: Software support
4.4.3 Intel
®
RAID congurations
This motherboard supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 and Intel
®
Matrix
Storage congurations for Serial ATA hard disks drives through the Intel
®
ICH10R
Southbridge chip.
Setting the RAID item in BIOS
You must set the RAID item in the BIOS Setup before you can create a RAID
set(s). To do this:
1. Enter the BIOS Setup during POST.
2. Go to the
Main
menu, select
Storage Conguration
, then press <Enter>.
3. Select the item
Congure SATA as
, then press <Enter> to display the
conguration options.
4. Select [RAID] from the
Congure SATA as
item options, then press <Enter>.
5. Save your changes, then exit the BIOS Setup.
Refer to the system or the motherboard user guide for details on entering and
navigating through the BIOS Setup.
4.4.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks
The motherboard supports Serial ATA hard disk drives. For optimal performance,
install identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating a disk array.
To install the SATA hard disks for a RAID conguration:
1. Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays.
2. Connect the SATA signal cables.
3. Connect a SATA power cable to the power connector on each drive.

Asus P5Q Deluxe Specifications

General

Chipset	Intel P45
Socket	LGA 775
Memory Type	DDR2
Memory Slots	4 x DIMM
Max Memory	16 GB
Form Factor	ATX
PCI Express x16	2
PCI Express x1	3
PCI Slots	2
SATA Ports	6 x SATA 3Gb/s
IDE Ports	1 x ATA133
Max. LAN Speed	10/100/1000 Mbps
Audio Chipset	ADI AD2000B
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 5, 10
USB Ports	12 x USB 2.0
Audio Channels	8-channel
CPU Type	Core 2 Quad / Core 2 Duo / Pentium / Celeron
Back Panel Ports	eSATA, USB, LAN, Audio
Memory Speed	1200/1066/800/667 MHz
eSATA Ports	2 x eSATA 3Gb/s