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RAID Setup
Your solid state drives (SSDs) can be set up in RAID mode (for increased
erformance or protection). Note that setting up your solid state drives in RAID
mode needs to be done prior to installing the Windows OS. Do not change the
mode unless you intend to reinstall your operating system, and make sure you
back up all necessary files and data before doing so.
To configure your RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) system in
Striping (RAID 0) or Mirroring (RAID 1) mode (see Table 1) you will require two
identical solid state drives.
RAID Level
RAID 0
(at lease two SSDs
needed)
RAID 1
(at lease two SSDs
needed)
RAID 5
(at lease three SSDs
needed)
RAID Description
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Identical drives reading and writing data in parallel to increase performance. RAID 0
implements a striped disk array and the data is broken into blocks and each block is
written to a separate drive.
Identical drives in a mirrored configuration used to protect data. Should a drive that is
part of a mirrored array fail, the mirrored drive (which contains identical data) will handle
all the data. When a new replacement drive is installed, data to the new drive is rebuilt
from the mirrored drive to restore fault tolerance.
RAID 5 (Parity) is the most regularly used secure RAID level. RAID 5 consists of blocklevel
striping with distributed parity so data blocks are striped across the drives and parity
data is not written to a fixed drive, but is spread across all drives. Using the parity data,
the computer can recalculate the data of one of the other data blocks, should that data
no longer be available. A RAID 5 array can withstand a failure of a single drive so that
no data is lost.
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