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MegaRAID SAS Software User GuideChapter 8: Configuration
| Creating a New Storage Configuration
Drive Group 0 and Span 0 appear in the Drive groups field when you select
RAID 10, 50, or 60.
The RAID controller supports RAID levels 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60. In addition, it
supports independent drives (configured as RAID 0 and RAID 00). The screen
text gives a brief description of the RAID level you select. RAID levels you can
choose depend on the number of drives available. To learn more about RAID
levels, see Chapter2, Introduction to RAID.
b. Scroll down the menu for the Drive security method field if you want to set a
drive security method.
The drive security feature provides the ability to encrypt data and use
disk-based key management for your data security solution. This solution
provides protection to the data in the event of theft or loss of drives. See
Section11.5, SafeStore Encryption Services, for more i
nformation about drive
security and encryption.
c. Select
unconfigured drives from the list of drives and click Add> to add them to
the drive group.
The selected drives appear under Span 0 below Drive Group 0, as shown in
Figure149.
Figure 149: Span 0 of Drive Group 0
d. Click Create Span to create a second span in the drive group.
e. Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives and click Add> to add them to
the second drive group.
The selected drives appear under Span 1 below Drive Group 0, as shown in
Figure150.