MANUAL
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... TF7025-M2 7 1.6 Motherboard Layout (for TF7050-M2 8 1.7 Motherboard Layout (for TF7025-M2 9 Chapter 2: Hardware Installation 10 2.1 Installing Central Processing Unit (CPU 10 2.2 FAN Headers 12 2.3 Installing System Memory 13 2.4 Connectors and Slots 15 Chapter 3: Headers & Jumpers Setup 17 3.1 How to Setup Jumpers 17 3.2 Detail Settings 17 Chapter 4: RAID Functions 25 4.1 Operation System 25 4.2 Raid Arrays 25 4.3 How RAID...
... TF7025-M2 7 1.6 Motherboard Layout (for TF7050-M2 8 1.7 Motherboard Layout (for TF7025-M2 9 Chapter 2: Hardware Installation 10 2.1 Installing Central Processing Unit (CPU 10 2.2 FAN Headers 12 2.3 Installing System Memory 13 2.4 Connectors and Slots 15 Chapter 3: Headers & Jumpers Setup 17 3.1 How to Setup Jumpers 17 3.2 Detail Settings 17 Chapter 4: RAID Functions 25 4.1 Operation System 25 4.2 Raid Arrays 25 4.3 How RAID...
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...(for Ver 5.x) x6 Audio Jack (for Ver 6.x) x3 235 mm(W) x 244 mm(L) RAID 0 / 1 / 5 / 0+1 support Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA Biostar Reserves the right to add or remove support for any OS With or without notice. 5 TF7050-M2/TF7025-M2 TF7025-M2 ALC888 (Ver 5.x) / ALC861VD (Ver 6.x) 7.1 channels audio out (Ver 5.x) / 5.1 channels... (for Ver 5.x) x6 Audio Jack (for Ver 6.x) x3 Board Size 235 mm(W) x 244 mm(L) Special Features RAID 0 / 1 / 5 / 0+1 support Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA OS Support Biostar Reserves the right to add or remove support for any OS With or without notice.
...(for Ver 5.x) x6 Audio Jack (for Ver 6.x) x3 235 mm(W) x 244 mm(L) RAID 0 / 1 / 5 / 0+1 support Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA Biostar Reserves the right to add or remove support for any OS With or without notice. 5 TF7050-M2/TF7025-M2 TF7025-M2 ALC888 (Ver 5.x) / ALC861VD (Ver 6.x) 7.1 channels audio out (Ver 5.x) / 5.1 channels... (for Ver 5.x) x6 Audio Jack (for Ver 6.x) x3 Board Size 235 mm(W) x 244 mm(L) Special Features RAID 0 / 1 / 5 / 0+1 support Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA OS Support Biostar Reserves the right to add or remove support for any OS With or without notice.
MANUAL
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... up to 6 or 8. TF7050-M2/TF7025-M2 CHAPTER 4: RAID FUNCTIONS 4.1 OPERATION SYSTEM z Supports Windows XP Home/Professional Edition, and Windows 2000 Professional. 4.2 RAID ARRAYS RAID supports the following types of disk capacity. 4.3 HOW RAID WORKS RAID 0: The controller "stripes" data across multiple drives in a RAID 0 array system. RAID 5: RAID 5 provides fault tolerance and better utilization of RAID arrays: RAID 0: RAID 0 defines a disk striping scheme...
... up to 6 or 8. TF7050-M2/TF7025-M2 CHAPTER 4: RAID FUNCTIONS 4.1 OPERATION SYSTEM z Supports Windows XP Home/Professional Edition, and Windows 2000 Professional. 4.2 RAID ARRAYS RAID supports the following types of disk capacity. 4.3 HOW RAID WORKS RAID 0: The controller "stripes" data across multiple drives in a RAID 0 array system. RAID 5: RAID 5 provides fault tolerance and better utilization of RAID arrays: RAID 0: RAID 0 defines a disk striping scheme...
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..., the controller switches to more expensive and less reliable media. Features and Benefits Drives: Minimum 2, and maximum is 2. Uses: RAID 1 is ideal for small databases or any other drive. Drawbacks: Requires 2 drives for high-availability solutions, or as a form of a... read and write is actually carried out in parallel across 2 disk drives in the array. RAID techniques can reside on the same disk or on a second redundant drive in a RAID 1 array system. Performance is impaired during drive rebuilds. Fault Tolerance: Yes. Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 26 ...
..., the controller switches to more expensive and less reliable media. Features and Benefits Drives: Minimum 2, and maximum is 2. Uses: RAID 1 is ideal for small databases or any other drive. Drawbacks: Requires 2 drives for high-availability solutions, or as a form of a... read and write is actually carried out in parallel across 2 disk drives in the array. RAID techniques can reside on the same disk or on a second redundant drive in a RAID 1 array system. Performance is impaired during drive rebuilds. Fault Tolerance: Yes. Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 26 ...
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... allows for spare disks. Drawbacks: Requires twice the available disk space for data redundancy, the same as RAID level 1. Fault Tolerance: Yes. TF7050-M2/TF7025-M2 RAID 0+1: RAID 0 drives can be simultaneously used with other RAID levels in a RAID 0+1 solution for improved performance plus resiliency. Features and Benefits Drives: Minimum 4, and maximum is 6 or 8, depending...
... allows for spare disks. Drawbacks: Requires twice the available disk space for data redundancy, the same as RAID level 1. Fault Tolerance: Yes. TF7050-M2/TF7025-M2 RAID 0+1: RAID 0 drives can be simultaneously used with other RAID levels in a RAID 0+1 solution for improved performance plus resiliency. Features and Benefits Drives: Minimum 4, and maximum is 6 or 8, depending...
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... 8 PARITY DATA 11 Disk 3 PARITY DATA 4 DATA 6 PARITY DATA 10 DATA 12 ※ For more drives. Features and Benefits Drives: Minimum 3. Uses: RAID 5 is placed on a different drive from those used to download NVIDIA nForce Tutorial Flash. 28 Fault tolerance is maintained by ensuring that the parity information...performance, good fault tolerance, and high capacity and storage efficiency. Drawbacks: Individual block data transfer rate same as a single disk. Motherboard Manual RAID 5: RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across all the drives in the array.
... 8 PARITY DATA 11 Disk 3 PARITY DATA 4 DATA 6 PARITY DATA 10 DATA 12 ※ For more drives. Features and Benefits Drives: Minimum 3. Uses: RAID 5 is placed on a different drive from those used to download NVIDIA nForce Tutorial Flash. 28 Fault tolerance is maintained by ensuring that the parity information...performance, good fault tolerance, and high capacity and storage efficiency. Drawbacks: Individual block data transfer rate same as a single disk. Motherboard Manual RAID 5: RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across all the drives in the array.
BIOS MANUAL
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TF7050-M2 / TF7025-M2 BIOS Manual MCP Storage Config SATA Operation Mode This option allows you to decide to active whether PCI Slot or on-chip VGA first. The Choices: IDE (default), RAID, AHCI, Linux AHCI. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. Init Display First T his item allows you to... enable or disable the onboard LAN. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. 20 Master/Slave RAID This option allows you to select SATA function. The Choices: PCIEx (default), PCI Slot, Onboard. SATA Pri-/Sec- Onboard PCIE LAN This item...
TF7050-M2 / TF7025-M2 BIOS Manual MCP Storage Config SATA Operation Mode This option allows you to decide to active whether PCI Slot or on-chip VGA first. The Choices: IDE (default), RAID, AHCI, Linux AHCI. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. Init Display First T his item allows you to... enable or disable the onboard LAN. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. 20 Master/Slave RAID This option allows you to select SATA function. The Choices: PCIEx (default), PCI Slot, Onboard. SATA Pri-/Sec- Onboard PCIE LAN This item...