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BIOS CONFIGURATION
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Step Action
1 To setup the hot spare (option), choose “Raid Set Function” from the
main menu. Select the “Create Hot Spare” and press the Enter key to
dene the hot spare.
2 Choose “RAID Set Function” from the main menu. Select “Create Raid
Set” and press the Enter key.
3 The “Select a Drive For Raid Set” window is displayed showing the SAS/
SATA drives connected to the SAS RAID controller.
4 Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specic physical drives.
Press the Enter key to associate the selected physical drive with the cur-
rent RAID set.
It is recommend that you use drives of the same capacity in a specic
array. If you use drives with different capacities in an array, all drives in
the RAID set will be set to the capacity of the smallest drive in the RAID
set.
The numbers of physical drives in a specic array determines which RAID
levels that can be implemented in the array.
RAID 0 requires 1 or more physical drives.
RAID 1 requires at least 2 physical drives.
RAID 10 requires at least 3 physical drives.
RAID 3 requires at least 3 physical drives.
RAID 5 requires at least 3 physical drives.
RAID 6 requires at least 4 physical drives.
RAID 30 requires at least 6 physical drives.
RAID 50 requires at least 6 physical drives.
RAID 60 requires at least 8 physical drives.
5 After adding the desired physical drives to the current RAID set, press
the Enter to conrm the “Create Raid Set” function.
6 An “Edit The Raid Set Name” dialog box appears. Enter 1 to 15 alphanu-
meric characters to dene a unique identier for this new RAID set. The
default RAID set name will always appear as Raid Set. #. Press Enter to
nish the name editing.
7 Press the Enter key when you are nished creating the current RAID
set. To continue dening another RAID set, repeat step 3. To begin vol-
ume set conguration, go to step 8.
8 Choose the “Volume Set Function” from the main menu. Select “Create
Volume Set” and press the Enter key.
9 Choose a RAID set from the “Create Volume From Raid Set” window.
Press the Yes to conrm the selection.