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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), 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 RAID5 array, however, is not fault-tolerant until initialization is

finished.

6)

If you are creating RAID5, 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.

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