WEBVTT 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:12.000 adata xpg V2 memory kits are optimized for the latest Intel gaming platforms 00:00:10.559 --> 00:00:17.240 check the link in the video description for more details Welcome to our raid 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:22.240 setup guide this one is sponsored by adata so they actually provided us with 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:27.240 some ssds to show off the setup procedure for raid arrays on an Intel 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:30.759 chipset motherboard so in this case we're using the Maximus 6 Extreme from a 00:00:29.560 --> 00:00:34.879 Seuss and we're going to walk you through everything from start to finish 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:38.160 although very briefly the types of raid that are generally supported by a 00:00:36.440 --> 00:00:41.920 motherboard are going to be raid zero which is better for Speed but actually 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:46.520 worse than single Drive operation for reliability raid one which doesn't do 00:00:44.559 --> 00:00:50.559 anything to speed but is much better for reliability but costs more per capacity 00:00:49.199 --> 00:00:56.600 because you're doubling up the number of drives you need for a given amount of storage and raid five which I generally 00:00:54.480 --> 00:01:00.920 don't really recommend running off of an onboard RAID controller because the 00:00:58.480 --> 00:01:06.119 performance isn't great and migrating from one motherboard to another one can 00:01:02.760 --> 00:01:09.439 be a bit of an issue in terms of um well 00:01:06.119 --> 00:01:11.240 the data staying you know there all 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:15.520 right so the first step is to press delete or F2 or f11 or whatever it 00:01:13.600 --> 00:01:18.720 happens to be on your motherboard to get into the BIOS you can see we already 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:21.560 have this set up so because we were cheating and we made sure we knew how to 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:27.159 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 00:01:25.360 --> 00:01:32.280 usually under chipset or something like that so SATA configuration sometimes 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:36.159 will be multiple SATA chips sets on your motherboard you can consult them manual 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:40.159 or they're often labeled physically but you want to make sure all the drives 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:43.680 that you want to run in ra raid are connected to the same physical 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:47.560 controller and i' usually recommend using the Intel one unless there's a 00:01:45.399 --> 00:01:52.880 compelling reason not to or on an AMD motherboard the AMD one obviously so the 00:01:49.960 --> 00:01:57.719 SATA mode selection there's usually idci and raid so that should be pretty 00:01:54.479 --> 00:02:00.439 self-explanatory go with raid then F10 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:04.000 to commit our changes and start the computer now when you boot up you're 00:02:02.360 --> 00:02:07.399 going to see an additional option that you didn't have before if you weren't in 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:13.520 RAID Mode and it's going to say press controll I to enter the configuration 00:02:10.200 --> 00:02:15.519 Outlet utility so from here you can 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:19.080 create raid volumes delete raid volumes please note when you delete a raid 00:02:17.040 --> 00:02:22.080 volume you do wipe out all the data on those drives so be very careful with 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:26.200 that in fact when you create a raid volume you wipe out all the data on 00:02:23.959 --> 00:02:30.599 those drives you can reset discs to non- raid etc etc etc so we are going to show 00:02:28.640 --> 00:02:34.959 you creating a raid volume so in our case we're going to call it OS because 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:39.319 the only reason I can think of to build a very high performance massive raid 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:42.480 zero would be for an OS that you're not planning to store anything critical on 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:47.360 and you're going to do like nightly or even hourly backups because that is a 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:50.400 very very scary way to run your computer I would know because I do it and I've 00:02:48.959 --> 00:02:55.920 had quite a few problems with that so you go down through these options when you select the drives use space bar to 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:59.319 select the ones you want to use and it'll actually only give you the raid 00:02:57.519 --> 00:03:02.840 options that make sense for how many drives that you have selected so raid 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:06.840 five won't show up until you select at least three drives and RAID 10 won't 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:12.040 show up unless you select at least four drives when you're done press enter and 00:03:09.519 --> 00:03:16.519 it gives you an option for strip size so generally speaking smaller strip sizes 00:03:14.799 --> 00:03:20.920 that is to say how much data is written to each of the however many drives are 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:24.519 in the raid zero before moving on to the next one smaller strip sizes are 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:28.400 generally better for random and larger strip sizes are generally better for 00:03:26.200 --> 00:03:32.239 sequential performance however your mileage may vary and it depends a lot on 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:35.879 the kind of drives you're running and the kind of data you're working with so 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:38.840 we're just going to go with the default option which I believe was 32 although 00:03:37.720 --> 00:03:42.439 it doesn't matter we're not going to use this for anything capacity you can 00:03:40.920 --> 00:03:46.400 adjust the capacity you want we're going to go with the full capacity of our 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:51.560 drives which is in there automatically create volume all data will be lost yes 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:54.879 we're okay with that once this is done all we have to do is press escape to 00:03:53.480 --> 00:04:01.200 exit and we're ready to install our operating system on ASUS motherboards we 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:03.480 can press f8 to bring up the entire boot 00:04:01.200 --> 00:04:07.760 menu without actually manually reconfiguring our boot devices there you 00:04:06.239 --> 00:04:11.400 go I just keep mashing it on other boards it's different I believe it's f11 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:15.480 on Gigabyte boards for example so now all we have to do is go to our emation 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:19.720 clip which is our Windows OS so you would use your dis drive if you had a 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:23.080 Windows disc in the optical drive for example but in our case it's a bootable 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:27.080 USB so we're going to load this up and show you the last step here so it should 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:31.479 show up as unallocated space if for whatever reason your array does not show 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:36.280 up here what you're going to want to do is Click load driver and then you're 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:41.160 going to insert either a USB drive make sure you plug it into a usb2 port not a 00:04:39.080 --> 00:04:44.320 USB 3 Port because that'll need drivers in order to function as well so you're 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:49.440 going to want to throw it on a USB drive or on an optical disc click browse find 00:04:47.080 --> 00:04:52.720 the driver and install that but in this case we don't need it because we're just 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:57.240 using the onboard Intel RAID so we're going to go ahead and just click next 00:04:54.320 --> 00:05:00.160 unless we particularly need to make a bunch of different partitions out of our 00:04:58.520 --> 00:05:04.680 drive it does not improve performance in any meaningful way contrary to what you 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:07.880 might have been told in 1998 um so there you go we're going to go ahead and do 00:05:06.479 --> 00:05:12.120 that okay one thing you can do is you can Short Stroke drives or you can leave 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:14.880 extra spare area on ssds but you don't want to just create a bunch of random 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:19.800 partitions for no reason unless you really really absolutely you're need to 00:05:17.880 --> 00:05:23.720 do okay we're done now so basically there you go guys that is how to set up 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:27.960 a raid array whether it's raid zero which is what we did or Raid one or Raid 00:05:26.039 --> 00:05:31.680 five or whatever else the case may be running off of an Intel RAID controller 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:38.039 built into your motherboard thanks for watching don't forget to subscribe like this video if you liked it dislike if if 00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:41.280 you disliked it and comment on it if you 00:05:38.039 --> 00:05:46.280 had some feelings that just can't be 00:05:41.280 --> 00:05:46.280 expressed by doing this or 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:57.120 this