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RocketRAID 2522 Driver and Software Installation

3 - Creating an Array

To create an array:

1.

Highlight the “Management” menu, then select the “Array Management”

function.

2.

Click the Create button on the toolbar or select the “Create” command from the

“Operation” menu. The array creation wizard will appear.

3.

Select the desired RAID level from the drop-down list.

4.

Enter a name for the array using the keyboard (this is optional), and click the Next

button.

5.

If you are creating a redundant array (RAID 1, 5, 10, 50), select an initialization

option. If you are creating a RAID 0 or JBOD (volume), skip to step 6:

For RAID1 and RAID 10 arrays, the default initialization method is “No

initialization”.

For RAID5 or RAID 50 arrays, the default initialization method is “Foreground”.

If you are creating RAID5 or RAID 50 arrays, you will be asked to specify a cache

policy:

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