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DK8X Motherboard
SILICON IMAGE CHIPSET AND SERIAL ATA
The Serial version of this Mainboard is equipped with an integrated Silicon Image
Sil3114 Serial ATA chipset. This chipset supports up to 4 SATA devices at transfer rates
of up to 150MB/s.
The Silicon Image Chipset also supports RAID configurations. RAID stands for
"Redundant Array of Independent Devices" and provides different levels of safety,
redundancy and performance. This chipset supports RAID 0, 1, and 10, which are defined
as follows:
RAID Type Description
RAID 0 Striping: high performance, designed ot connect multiple drives to act as one
RAID 1
Mirroring: writes data to two drives at once in case one drive fails, the other
one will be a complete replica and can continue on. Full fail-over
RAID 10
Combination of RAID 0 and 1: over 4 drives, The drives are split in half and
striped together, and the 2 new striped drives are then mirrored.
This Mainboard features four (4) Serial ATA ports for 4 Serial ATA devices. Refer to the
documentation that came with the drives for more information about settings and
installation.
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