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Asus PIKE 2208 User Manual

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ASUS PIKE 2208

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If you select Automatic Configuration, you can choose the redundancy mode:

Redundancy when possible: Automatically creates an optimal RAID

configuration, providing data redundancy.

No Redundancy: Automatically creates a non-redundant RAID 0

configuration.

5. Click Next to continue.

Using Automatic Configuration

Follow these instructions to create a configuration with automatic configuration,

either with or without redundancy:
1. When WebBIOS displays the proposed new configuration, review the

information on the screen, and click Accept to accept it. (Or click Back to go

back and change the configuration.)

RAID 0: If you selected Automatic Configuration and No

Redundancy, WebBIOS creates a RAID 0 configuration.

RAID 1: If you selected Automatic Configuration and Redundancy

when possible, WebBIOS creates a RAID 1 configuration if only two

disk drives are available.

RAID 6: If you selected Automatic Configuration and Redundancy

when possible, WebBIOS creates a RAID 6 configuration if three or

more disk drives are available.

2. Click Yes when you are prompted to save the configuration.
3. Click Yes when you are prompted to initialize the new virtual drive(s).

WebBIOS CU begins a background initialization of the virtual drives.

Using Manual Configuration: RAID 0

RAID 0 provides drive striping across all drives in the RAID drive group. RAID

0 does not provide any data redundancy but does offer excellent performance.

RAID 0 is ideal for applications that require high bandwidth but do not require fault

tolerance. RAID 0 also denotes an independent or single drive.

RAID level 0 is not fault-tolerant. If a drive in a RAID 0 drive group fails, the

whole virtual drive (all drives associated with the virtual drive) fails.

When you select Manual Configuration and click Next, the Drive Group Definition

screen appears. You use this screen to select drives to create drive groups.
1. Hold while selecting two or more ready drives in the Drives panel on

the left until you have selected all desired drives for the drive group.