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3. Press to move to the Free Disks section. Highlight the hard disk drives

that you want to add in the RAID set, then press the right arrow key to select.

The selected hard disk drives appear in the Array Disks section. Repeat the

process until all desired hard disk drives are added.

6.2.3

Creating a RAID Volume

To create a RAID 0 set:
1. From the Define a New Array menu,

select RAID Mode, then press

. A pop-up menu appears.Use

the up or down arrow keys to select a

RAID mode , then press . You

can select either Mirroring, Striping,

Spanning, Stripe Mirroring, or RAID 5.

Mirroring
Striping
Stripe Mirroring
Spanning
RAID 5

2. Press to select the Striping

Block option, then press .

The following submenu appears:The

available stripe size values range

from 4KB to 128KB. The default stripe

size is optimal (64KB). You must

choose the stripe size value based

on the projected drive usage. For

low disk usage, select 4 KB/16 KB.

For typical disk usage, select 64 KB.

Select 128KB for performance disk

usage.

4K

8K

16K

32K

64K

128K

Optim

For server systems, we recommend using a lower array block size. For

multimedia computer systems used mainly for audio and video editing, we

recommend a higher array block size for optimum performance.

• The RAID mode is set to Mirroring by default.
• Not all RAID modes are supported on all platforms. (This server only has

two HDDs that only supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 mode.)