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Configuring your ROMB RAID solution with the RAID BIOS Console configuration utility
8
When the drives are defined, click
Accept Array
, then click
Next
. The Logical Drive
definition screen opens.
9
Select the
RAID Level
from the list.
10
Select the
Stripe Size
from the list.
Specify the size of the segment written to each disk in a RAID configuration. You can
set the stripe size to 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or 128 Kbytes. The default is 64 Kbytes.
11
Select the
Read Policy
from the list to enable the read-ahead feature for the logical drive.
You can set this parameter to:
■
Normal
- specifies that the controller does not use read-ahead for the current logical
drive.
■
Read-ahead
- specifies that additional consecutive stripes are read and buffered into
cache. This option will improve performance for sequential reads.
■
Adaptive
- specifies that the controller begins using readahead if the two most recent
disk accesses occurred in sequential sectors.
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