Accusys ExaSAN A12S2-PS User Manual
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Quick Start Guide
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2. Select the stripe size from the drop down menu. Available stripe sizes are: 8-256KB. The greater the stripe size,
the faster the I/O output for each drive. This speeds up disk access.
3. Select the sector size from the drop down menu. Available sector sizes are 512 bytes (default) and 4096 bytes.
The sector size 4096 bytes is only supported by Windows 2000/XP, and over 2 Terabyte function is used. For
other OSes, please select 512 bytes (default).
4. Click on the drives to be added to the array. You can also click on Select all spare drivers.
Note
Hot (Global) spare drive – When building an array, the hard drives which are not defined
will be used as spare drives for all arrays defined within the controller. If a drive(s) in use
fails, a spare drive(s) will replace the faulty drive in the array and rebuild automatically.
One of the advantages of adopting hot spare drive is to reduce the downtime.