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5-5

5. Press to move to the Free Disks section.
6. 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.

[F6] Back [F7] Finish [TAB] Navigate [↑↓] Select [ENTER] Popup

NVIDIA RAID Utility Oct 5 2004

- Define a New Array -

RAID Mode:

Striping

Striping Block:

Optimal

Free Disks

Array Disks

Loc Disk Model Name

Loc Disk Model Name

1.0.M XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

1.0.M XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

1.1.M XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[] Add

2.0.M XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

2.1.M XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[] Del

5.2.3 Creating a RAID 0 set (Stripe)

To create a RAID 0 set:

1. From the Define a New Array menu, select RAID

Mode, then press . A pop-up menu

appears.

2. Use the up or down arrow keys to select

Striping, then press .

Mirroring
Striping
Stripe Mirroring
Spanning
RAID 5

3. Press to move to the Striping Block

option, then press .

4. Use the up or down arrow keys to select the

stripe block size appropriate to your drive usage,

then press .

The available stripe size values range from 8KB to 128KB. The default

stripe size is 128KB. You must choose the stripe size value based on

the projected drive usage. For low disk usage, select 8KB/16KB. For

typical disk usage, select 64KB. Select 128KB for performance disk

usage.

8K

16K

32K

64K

128K

Optim

TIP: 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.