Promise Technology FastTrak SX Series Version 4.4 - Manual (Page 26)

Promise Array Management
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Every User has least one of these three Rights and can change his/her own
password. The Administrator can assign more or fewer rights to other Users
but cannot change their passwords.
3. Type in a Username and Password in their
respective fields. Check all the appropriate boxes to
set access rights. Click the Commit button when
you are done.
The new user’s name appears in the Tree View
(right).
Create an Array
1. In Tree View, click the + to the left of the Controller icon to see the
Channels. Click the + to the left of each Channel icon to see the
unassigned disk drives. Unassigned drives have this icon.
The available RAID selection depends on the number of disk drives
available. The table below lists the Levels and drives required.
See the Appendix A in this Manual for a more detailed description.
RAID Level Name
Minimum
drives
Maximum
drives
0 Striping 2 4
1 Mirroring 2 2
0+1 Striping + Mirroring 4 4
5 Distributed Parity 3 4
JBOD Single Drive 1 4
Table 2. RAID Levels available with FastTrak SX4000 series and S150 SX4.
2. Right-click on the Controller icon and select New Array from the popup
menu (right). A Create Array icon appears.