AMD RAID Installation Guide 1. AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide ........................................................................................................ 2 2. 1.1 Introduction to RAID................................................................................................................. 2 1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions ............................................................................................ 4 1.
1. AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to configure RAID functions by using the onboard FastBuild BIOS utility under BIOS environment. After you make a SATA driver diskette, press or to enter BIOS setup to set the option to RAID mode by following the detailed instruction of the “User Manual” in our support CD, then you can start to use the onboard RAID Option ROM Utility to configure RAID. 1.
RAID 5 (Block Striping with Distributed Parity) RAID 5 stripes data and distributes parity information across the physical drives along with the data blocks. This organization increases performance by accessing multiple physical drives simultaneously for each operation, as well as fault tolerance by providing parity data. In the event of a physical drive failure, data can be re-calculated by the RAID system based on the remaining data and the parity information.
1.2 1. RAID Configurations Precautions Please use two new drives if you are creating a RAID 0 (striping) array for performance. It is recommended to use two SATA drives of the same size. If you use two drives of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size for each drive.
1.3 Legacy RAID ROM Configuration (for AMD X370, B350, and A320 Chipsets) Use legacy RAID ROM to create and configure the RAID disk. STEP 1: Set up UEFI A. During system boot, press or key to enter UEFI setup utility. B. Go to Advanced Storage Configuration. C. Set the “SATA Mode” option to . D. Click to save to exit. STEP 2: Create and configure the RAID disk A. During system boot, press to enter legacy RAID ROM utility. B.
Use the arrow keys to select the hard drives to be included in the RAID array and press . The selected hard drives will be shown in green. To use all of the hard drives, simply press to select all. Then press . Use the arrow keys to select a RAID level you want. Press to confirm your selection. Use the up/down arrow key or / to adjust the size and press .
Select a caching mode and press to proceed. Press to confirm and then press to return to the previous screen. When completed, you will see the new array on the main screen. Press to exit the RAID BIOS utility.
STEP 3.1: Copy RAID driver to a USB flash drive You can choose either STEP 3.1 or STEP 3.2 to finish the configuration. A. Please install the DVD-ROM. B. During system boot, press or key to enter UEFI setup utility. C. Plug a USB drive into one of the USB port. D. Insert the Support CD into the DVD-ROM drive. E. Go to Tools Easy RAID Installer F. Follow instructions to finish the driver copy process. STEP 3.2: Download driver from ASRock's website A.
C. For 32bit OS, the driver is under /I386 directory. For 64bit OS, the driver is under /AMD64 directly. Please select the correct driver for your Windows version (Windows 10). D. Select “AMD-RAID Bottom Device” and then click . E. Click again to find the driver inside your USB flash drive. F. Select “AMD-RAID Controller storport” and then click . G. Click again to find the driver inside your USB flash drive.
H. Select “AMD-RAID Config Device” and then click . I. After RAID driver is loaded, the RAID disk will show up. J. Please follow Windows installation instruction to finish the process.
1.4 UEFI RAID Configuration (for AMD X399, X370, B350, and A320 Chipsets) Set up a RAID array using UEFI Setup Utility. STEP 1: Set up UEFI and create a RAID array A. During system boot, press or key to enter UEFI setup utility. B. Go to Advanced Storage Configuration. C. Set the “SATA Mode” option to . D. Click to save to exit. E. (This step is only for NVMe RAID on X399 chipset): Go to AdvancedAMD PBS and set “NVMe RAID mode” to .
G. Go to AdvancedRAIDXpert2 Configuration UtilityArray ManagementCreate Array Select Physical DisksCheck AllApply ChangesCreate Array. *Be sure to delete the existing disk arrays before creating a new array. H. Click to save to exit. STEP 2.1: Copy RAID driver to a USB flash drive You can choose either STEP2.1 or STEP2.2 to finish the configuration. A. Please install the DVD-ROM. B. During system boot, press or key to enter UEFI setup utility. C.
STEP 3: Windows installation A. During Windows installation process, when Disk selection page show up, please click . B. Click to find the driver inside your USB flash drive. C. For 32bit OS, the driver is under /I386 directory. For 64bit OS, the driver is under /AMD64 directly. Please select the correct driver for your Windows version (Windows 10). D. Select “AMD-RAID Bottom Device” and then click .
E. Click again to find the driver inside your USB flash drive. F. Select “AMD-RAID Controller storport” and then click . G. Click again to find the driver inside your USB flash drive. H. Select “AMD-RAID Config Device” and then click .
I. After RAID driver is loaded, the RAID disk will show up. J. Please follow Windows installation instruction to finish the process.
2. AMD Windows RAID Installation Guide Using RAIDXpert2 to Create RAID Array in Windows 1. Execute RAIDXpert2 in the Windows Programs menu.
2. When the login screen appears, type “admin” in the Login ID field. Type “admin” again in the Password field. 3. Create new username and password. Then log in to RAIDXpert with new username & password.
4. Be sure to delete the existing disk arrays before creating a new array. 5. To create array, Click on Array → Create.
6. Select the disks to be included in the RAID array. Select Array Type Enter Array Name & Array Size. Then click Create to create a RAID array. 7. Check if the array is created successfully.
8. In Disk Management, create partition and initialize the disk as GPT.
