Asus TS300-E5 User Manual
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Contents
Setting up RAID ........................................................................... 6-2
6.1.1
RAID definitions .............................................................. 6-2
Installing hard disk drives ................................................ 6-3
Setting the RAID item in BIOS (For PA4 model only) ..... 6-3
RAID configuration utility (For PA4 model only) .............. 6-3
LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility
(For PA4 model Only) ................................................................... 6-4
6.2.1
Creating a RAID 0 or RAID 1 set .................................... 6-5
Creating a RAID 10 set ..................................................6-11
Adding or viewing a RAID configuration ....................... 6-15
Initializing the logical drives .......................................... 6-18
Rebuilding failed drives ................................................. 6-23
Checking the drives for data consistency ..................... 6-25
Deleting a RAID configuration ....................................... 6-28
Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set ...................... 6-29
Enabling the WriteCache .............................................. 6-30
Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM Utility
(For PA4 model only) ................................................................. 6-31
6.3.1
Creating a RAID 0 set (Stripe) ...................................... 6-32
Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirror) ...................................... 6-34
Creating a RAID 10 set (Stripe + Mirror) ....................... 6-35
Creating a RAID 5 set (Parity) ...................................... 6-36
Deleting a RAID set ...................................................... 6-37
Resetting disks to Non-RAID ........................................ 6-38
Rebuilding the RAID ..................................................... 6-38
Matrix Storage Manager .................... 6-41
Setting the Boot array use MB BIOS Setup Utility ........ 6-41
6.3.10 Global Array Manager ................................................... 6-42
LSI Corporation MPT Setup Utility
(for PX4 model only) .................................................................. 6-43
6.4.1
Integrated Mirroring volume .......................................... 6-43
Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volume ......................... 6-47
Integrated Striping (IS) volume ..................................... 6-49
Managing Arrays ........................................................... 6-51
Viewing SAS topology ................................................... 6-56
Global Properties .......................................................... 6-57