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8 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 3.1 CHAPTER 1About NVIDIA RAIDJBODHow JBOD WorksJBOD stands for “Just a Bunch of Disks”. Each drive is accessed a

NVIDIA Corporation 11C HAPTERSETTING UP YOUR RAID CONFIGURATIONThis chapter provides instructions for:• Setting Up a Non-Bootable RAID Array• Setting

12 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 3.1 CHAPTER 2Setting Up Your RAID ConfigurationThe BIOS CMOS Setup Utility window appears. Figure 2.1BIOS CMOS S

NVIDIA Corporation 13CHAPTER 2Setting Up Your RAID ConfigurationThe RAID Config window appears.Figure 2.3RAID Config Window4 From the RAID Config wind

NVIDIA Corporation 15CHAPTER 2Setting Up Your RAID ConfigurationSetting Up a Bootable RAID ArrayThis section explains how to configure a bootable NVID

16 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 3.1 CHAPTER 2Setting Up Your RAID ConfigurationThe Integrated Peripherals screen (or a screen similar to it) app

NVIDIA Corporation 17CHAPTER 2Setting Up Your RAID ConfigurationThe RAID Config screen appears.Figure 2.7RAID Config Screen5 From the RAID Config wind

18 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 3.1 CHAPTER 2Setting Up Your RAID ConfigurationConfiguring the NVIDIA RAID BIOSThe NVIDIA RAID BIOS set up lets

NVIDIA Corporation 19CHAPTER 2Setting Up Your RAID ConfigurationUnderstanding the Define a New Array WindowUse the Define a New Array window to• Selec

20 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 3.1 CHAPTER 2Setting Up Your RAID ConfigurationAssigning the DisksThe disks that you enabled from the RAID Confi

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.About NVIDIA RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 RAID Array

NVIDIA Corporation 21CHAPTER 2Setting Up Your RAID ConfigurationCompleting the RAID BIOS Setup1 After assigning your RAID array disks, press F7.The Cl

22 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 3.1 CHAPTER 2Setting Up Your RAID Configuration3 Use the arrow keys to select the array that you want to set up,

Chapter 3 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Rebuilding a Mirrored RAI

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NVIDIA Corporation 1C HAPTERABOUT NVIDIA RAIDNVIDIA brings Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) technology—which is used by the world’s leading

NVIDIA Corporation 3CHAPTER 1About NVIDIA RAIDRAID ArraysThis section describes the following types of RAID arrays that MediaShield supports:• RAID 0

4 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 3.1 CHAPTER 1About NVIDIA RAIDRAID 0 How RAID 0 WorksIn a RAID 0 array, the controller ʺstripesʺ data across mult

NVIDIA Corporation 5CHAPTER 1About NVIDIA RAIDRAID 1How RAID 1 WorksIn a RAID 1 array, every read and write is carried out in parallel across two disk

6 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 3.1 CHAPTER 1About NVIDIA RAIDRAID 0+1How RAID 0+1 WorksRAID 0 drives can be mirrored using RAID 1 techniques, re

NVIDIA Corporation 7CHAPTER 1About NVIDIA RAIDRAID 5How RAID 5 WorksRAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. It wr