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Chapter 3: System Administration

Using Create RAID, you can select stripe size, choose which disks are RAID disks or the Spare Disk. .

RAID Congurations

Item Description

Disk No. Number assigned to the installed hard disks.

Capacity (MB) Capacity of the installed hard disks.

Model Model number of the installed hard disks.

Status Status of the installed hard disks.

Used If this is checked, current hard disk is aalready part of a RAID volume.

Spare If this is checked, current hard disk is designated as a spare for a RAID volume.

Master RAID Check a box to designate this as the Master RAID volume. See the NOTE below for more information.

Stripe Size This sets the stripe size to maximize performance of sequential ﬁles in a storage volume. Keep the 64K setting

unless you require a special ﬁle storage layout in the storage volume. A larger stripe size is better for large ﬁles.

Data Percentage The percentage of the RAID volume that will be used to store data.

Create Press this button to conﬁgure a ﬁle system and create the RAID storage volume.

To create a RAID volume, follow the steps below:

On the RAID Information screen, clicks create.1.

On the RAID Conﬁguration screen, set the RAID storage space as JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, 2.

RAID 6 or RAID 10 (depends on model)— see Appendix B: RAID Basics for a detailed descrip- or RAID 10 (depends on model)— see Appendix B: RAID Basics for a detailed descrip- (depends on model)— see Appendix B: RAID Basics for a detailed descrip-(depends on model)— see Appendix B: RAID Basics for a detailed descrip-s on model)— see Appendix B: RAID Basics for a detailed descrip- on model)— see Appendix B: RAID Basics for a detailed descrip-— see Appendix B: RAID Basics for a detailed descrip-

tion of each.

Specify a RAID ID. 3.