Asus P8B-E/4L User Manual

ASUS P8B-E/4L 5-3
5.1 Setting up RAID
The motherboard comes with the Intel
®
C204 controller that supports the following
SATA RAID solutions:
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(default) with RAID 0,
RAID 1, and RAID 10 support (for both Linux and Windows OS).
•
Intel Rapid Storage Technology
with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and RAID 5
support (for Windows OS only).
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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 conguration 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 10
is data striping and data mirroring combined without parity (redundancy
data) having to be calculated and written. With the RAID 10 conguration you get
all the benets of both RAID 0 and RAID 1 congurations. 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 conguration include better HDD
performance, fault tolerance, and higher storage capacity. The RAID 5 conguration
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.
• If you want to boot the system from a hard disk drive included in a created
RAID set, copy rst the RAID driver from the support DVD to a oppy disk
before you install an operating system to the selected hard disk drive.
• Please refer to chapter 2 for how to select the RAID conguration utility.
Move the jumper to choose between LSI MegaRAID and Intel
®
Rapid RAID.

Asus P8B-E/4L Specifications

General

Microphone in	No
Serial ports quantity	0
USB 2.0 ports quantity	2
Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports	4
USB 2.0 connectors	3
Chassis intrusion connector	Yes
PCI Express slots version	2.0
Memory channels	Dual-channel
Supported memory types	DDR3-SDRAM
Maximum internal memory	32 GB
Supported memory clock speeds	1066, 1333, 1600 MHz
PCI Express slots quantity	6
Supported UDIMM module capacity	1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB
RAID levels	0, 1, 5, 10
Supported storage drive interfaces	SATA II, SATA III
LAN controller	Intel® 82574L
Ethernet interface type	Gigabit Ethernet
On-board graphics card model	Aspeed AST2050
On-board graphics card memory	16 MB
Parallel processing technology support	Not supported
Certification	FCC, CFR47 15, B, CE, EN55022, EN55024, C
Component for	Server
Motherboard chipset	Intel® C204
Motherboard form factor	ATX
Cables included	SATA
Storage temperature (T-T)	-40 - 70 °C
Operating temperature (T-T)	10 - 35 °C
Storage relative humidity (H-H)	20 - 90 %
Processor socket	LGA 1155 (Socket H2)
Intel Xeon series	E3-1200
Processor manufacturer	Intel
Processor number of cores supported	2, 4

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	304.8 mm
Width	243.8 mm