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Mac OSX Driver and RAID Management Software

3)

Choose the array type you want to create from the drop-down list.

4)

Enter a name for the array (this is optional)

5)

If you are creating a redundant RAID array (RAID1, 5, 10, 50), select an initialization

option for the array.

Note: An un-initialized RAID1 or RAID10 array can still provide redundancy in case of

a disk failure. A RAID(5, 50) array, however, is not fault-tolerant until initialization is

finished.

6)

If you are creating RAID(5, 50), specify a cache policy for the array:

Write-back

When the write-back setting is selected, writes to the array are cached. This will result

in higher performance, but data loss may occur in case of a power failure.

Write-through

When the write-through setting is selected, writes to the array are always passed

directly to the disks. Subsequent reads may still be completed from the cache, if

appropriate.

7)

Select disks from the Available Disks list.

8)

Enter a capacity for the array, or use the default value (the maximum capacity for

the array).

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