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check the link in the video description for more details Welcome to our raid

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setup guide this one is sponsored by adata so they actually provided us with

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some ssds to show off the setup procedure for raid arrays on an Intel

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chipset motherboard so in this case we're using the Maximus 6 Extreme from a

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Seuss and we're going to walk you through everything from start to finish

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although very briefly the types of raid that are generally supported by a

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motherboard are going to be raid zero which is better for Speed but actually

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worse than single Drive operation for reliability raid one which doesn't do

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anything to speed but is much better for reliability but costs more per capacity

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because you're doubling up the number of drives you need for a given amount of storage and raid five which I generally

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don't really recommend running off of an onboard RAID controller because the

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performance isn't great and migrating from one motherboard to another one can

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be a bit of an issue in terms of um well

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the data staying you know there all

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right so the first step is to press delete or F2 or f11 or whatever it

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happens to be on your motherboard to get into the BIOS you can see we already

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have this set up so because we were cheating and we made sure we knew how to

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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

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usually under chipset or something like that so SATA configuration sometimes

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will be multiple SATA chips sets on your motherboard you can consult them manual

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or they're often labeled physically but you want to make sure all the drives

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that you want to run in ra raid are connected to the same physical

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controller and i' usually recommend using the Intel one unless there's a

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compelling reason not to or on an AMD motherboard the AMD one obviously so the

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SATA mode selection there's usually idci and raid so that should be pretty

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self-explanatory go with raid then F10

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to commit our changes and start the computer now when you boot up you're

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going to see an additional option that you didn't have before if you weren't in

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RAID Mode and it's going to say press controll I to enter the configuration

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Outlet utility so from here you can

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create raid volumes delete raid volumes please note when you delete a raid

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volume you do wipe out all the data on those drives so be very careful with

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that in fact when you create a raid volume you wipe out all the data on

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those drives you can reset discs to non- raid etc etc etc so we are going to show

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you creating a raid volume so in our case we're going to call it OS because

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the only reason I can think of to build a very high performance massive raid

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zero would be for an OS that you're not planning to store anything critical on

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and you're going to do like nightly or even hourly backups because that is a

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very very scary way to run your computer I would know because I do it and I've

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had quite a few problems with that so you go down through these options when you select the drives use space bar to

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select the ones you want to use and it'll actually only give you the raid

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options that make sense for how many drives that you have selected so raid

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five won't show up until you select at least three drives and RAID 10 won't

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show up unless you select at least four drives when you're done press enter and

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it gives you an option for strip size so generally speaking smaller strip sizes

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that is to say how much data is written to each of the however many drives are

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in the raid zero before moving on to the next one smaller strip sizes are

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generally better for random and larger strip sizes are generally better for

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sequential performance however your mileage may vary and it depends a lot on

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the kind of drives you're running and the kind of data you're working with so

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we're just going to go with the default option which I believe was 32 although

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it doesn't matter we're not going to use this for anything capacity you can

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adjust the capacity you want we're going to go with the full capacity of our

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drives which is in there automatically create volume all data will be lost yes

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we're okay with that once this is done all we have to do is press escape to

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exit and we're ready to install our operating system on ASUS motherboards we

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can press f8 to bring up the entire boot

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menu without actually manually reconfiguring our boot devices there you

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go I just keep mashing it on other boards it's different I believe it's f11

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on Gigabyte boards for example so now all we have to do is go to our emation

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clip which is our Windows OS so you would use your dis drive if you had a

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Windows disc in the optical drive for example but in our case it's a bootable

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USB so we're going to load this up and show you the last step here so it should

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show up as unallocated space if for whatever reason your array does not show

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up here what you're going to want to do is Click load driver and then you're

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going to insert either a USB drive make sure you plug it into a usb2 port not a

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USB 3 Port because that'll need drivers in order to function as well so you're

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going to want to throw it on a USB drive or on an optical disc click browse find

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the driver and install that but in this case we don't need it because we're just

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using the onboard Intel RAID so we're going to go ahead and just click next

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unless we particularly need to make a bunch of different partitions out of our

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drive it does not improve performance in any meaningful way contrary to what you

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might have been told in 1998 um so there you go we're going to go ahead and do

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that okay one thing you can do is you can Short Stroke drives or you can leave

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extra spare area on ssds but you don't want to just create a bunch of random

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partitions for no reason unless you really really absolutely you're need to

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do okay we're done now so basically there you go guys that is how to set up

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a raid array whether it's raid zero which is what we did or Raid one or Raid

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five or whatever else the case may be running off of an Intel RAID controller

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