This document is the NVIDIA RAID installation guide, which introduces the NVIDIA BIOS RAID installation guide and NVIDIA Windows RAID installation guide
The document provides an overview of RAID concepts, the supported RAID configurations (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, JBOD) and precautions for creating arrays. It describes the required BIOS settings, driver preparation, and the use of the NVIDIA RAID Utility to define and manage arrays.
Step‑by‑step instructions are given for installing Windows XP, Windows Vista, and their 64‑bit versions with RAID enabled, including BIOS configuration, driver diskette creation, loading RAID drivers during OS installation, and post‑installation disk management. The guide also details how to create a disk array, select stripe size, assign disks, and finalize the array.