MSI X79A-GD45 Plus seres User Manual

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Intel RAID
Introducton
The manboard comes wth the Intel RAID controller that allows you to con󰘰gure SATA
hard drves as RAID sets.
Intel
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RAID controller o󰘯ers RAID level 0 (Strpng), RAID level 1 (Mrrorng and Du-
plexng), RAID level 5 (Block Interleaved Dstrbuted Party), RAID level 10 (A Strpe of
Mrrors).
RAID 0 breaks the data nto blocks whch are wrtten to separate hard drves. Spread
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ng the hard drve I/O load across ndependent channels greatly mproves I/O perfor-
mance.
RAID 1 provdes data redundancy by mrrorng data between the hard drves and pro
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vdes enhanced read performance.
RAID 5 Provdes data strpng at the byte level and also strpe error correcton nforma
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ton. Ths results n excellent performance and good fault tolerance. Level 5 s one of the
most popular mplementatons of RAID.
RAID 10 Not one of the orgnal RAID levels, multple RAID 1 mrrors are created, and a
RAID 0 strpe s created over these.
Important
The least number of hard drves for RAID 0 and RAID 1 s two. The least number of
hard drves for RAID 10 mode s four. And the least number of hard drves for RAID 5
mode s three.
All the nformaton/ volumes/ pctures lsted n your system mght d󰘯er from the llustra
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tons n ths appendx.

MSI X79A-GD45 Plus seres Specifications

General

Brand	MSI
Model	X79A-GD45 Plus seres
Category	Motherboard
Language	English