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check the link in the video description for more details Welcome to our raid
setup guide this one is sponsored by adata so they actually provided us with
some ssds to show off the setup procedure for raid arrays on an Intel
chipset motherboard so in this case we're using the Maximus 6 Extreme from a
Seuss and we're going to walk you through everything from start to finish
although very briefly the types of raid that are generally supported by a
motherboard are going to be raid zero which is better for Speed but actually
worse than single Drive operation for reliability raid one which doesn't do
anything to speed but is much better for reliability but costs more per capacity
because you're doubling up the number of drives you need for a given amount of storage and raid five which I generally
don't really recommend running off of an onboard RAID controller because the
performance isn't great and migrating from one motherboard to another one can
be a bit of an issue in terms of um well
the data staying you know there all
right so the first step is to press delete or F2 or f11 or whatever it
happens to be on your motherboard to get into the BIOS you can see we already
have this set up so because we were cheating and we made sure we knew how to
set up a rate array before we started filming this uh what you're going to want to do is get into the SATA it's
usually under chipset or something like that so SATA configuration sometimes
will be multiple SATA chips sets on your motherboard you can consult them manual
or they're often labeled physically but you want to make sure all the drives
that you want to run in ra raid are connected to the same physical
controller and i' usually recommend using the Intel one unless there's a
compelling reason not to or on an AMD motherboard the AMD one obviously so the
SATA mode selection there's usually idci and raid so that should be pretty
self-explanatory go with raid then F10
to commit our changes and start the computer now when you boot up you're
going to see an additional option that you didn't have before if you weren't in
RAID Mode and it's going to say press controll I to enter the configuration
Outlet utility so from here you can
create raid volumes delete raid volumes please note when you delete a raid
volume you do wipe out all the data on those drives so be very careful with
that in fact when you create a raid volume you wipe out all the data on
those drives you can reset discs to non- raid etc etc etc so we are going to show
you creating a raid volume so in our case we're going to call it OS because
the only reason I can think of to build a very high performance massive raid
zero would be for an OS that you're not planning to store anything critical on
and you're going to do like nightly or even hourly backups because that is a
very very scary way to run your computer I would know because I do it and I've
had quite a few problems with that so you go down through these options when you select the drives use space bar to
select the ones you want to use and it'll actually only give you the raid
options that make sense for how many drives that you have selected so raid
five won't show up until you select at least three drives and RAID 10 won't
show up unless you select at least four drives when you're done press enter and
it gives you an option for strip size so generally speaking smaller strip sizes
that is to say how much data is written to each of the however many drives are
in the raid zero before moving on to the next one smaller strip sizes are
generally better for random and larger strip sizes are generally better for
sequential performance however your mileage may vary and it depends a lot on
the kind of drives you're running and the kind of data you're working with so
we're just going to go with the default option which I believe was 32 although
it doesn't matter we're not going to use this for anything capacity you can
adjust the capacity you want we're going to go with the full capacity of our
drives which is in there automatically create volume all data will be lost yes
we're okay with that once this is done all we have to do is press escape to
exit and we're ready to install our operating system on ASUS motherboards we
can press f8 to bring up the entire boot
menu without actually manually reconfiguring our boot devices there you
go I just keep mashing it on other boards it's different I believe it's f11
on Gigabyte boards for example so now all we have to do is go to our emation
clip which is our Windows OS so you would use your dis drive if you had a
Windows disc in the optical drive for example but in our case it's a bootable
USB so we're going to load this up and show you the last step here so it should
show up as unallocated space if for whatever reason your array does not show
up here what you're going to want to do is Click load driver and then you're
going to insert either a USB drive make sure you plug it into a usb2 port not a
USB 3 Port because that'll need drivers in order to function as well so you're
going to want to throw it on a USB drive or on an optical disc click browse find
the driver and install that but in this case we don't need it because we're just
using the onboard Intel RAID so we're going to go ahead and just click next
unless we particularly need to make a bunch of different partitions out of our
drive it does not improve performance in any meaningful way contrary to what you
might have been told in 1998 um so there you go we're going to go ahead and do
that okay one thing you can do is you can Short Stroke drives or you can leave
extra spare area on ssds but you don't want to just create a bunch of random
partitions for no reason unless you really really absolutely you're need to
do okay we're done now so basically there you go guys that is how to set up
a raid array whether it's raid zero which is what we did or Raid one or Raid
five or whatever else the case may be running off of an Intel RAID controller
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