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5.5.2 Creating a RAID Volume
To create a RAID set:
1. From the Define a New Array menu,
select RAID Mode, then press
. A pop-up menu appears.
Use the up or down arrow keys to select
a RAID mode , then press .
You can select either Mirrored,
Striped, Spanned, Striped Mirror, or
RAID 5.
3. Press to move to the Free Disks section. Highlight the hard disk drives
that you want to add in the RAID set, then press the right arrow key to select.
The selected hard disk drives appear in the Array Disks section. Repeat the
process until all desired hard disk drives are added.
Mirrored
Striped
Spanned
Striped Mirror
RAID 5
2. Press to select the Stripe
Block option, then press .
The following submenu appears: The
available stripe size values range from
4KB to 128KB. The default stripe size
is optimal (64KB). You must choose
the stripe size value based on the
projected drive usage. For low disk
usage, select 4 KB/16 KB. For typical
disk usage, select 64 KB. Select 128KB
for performance disk usage.
4K
8K
16K
32K
64K
128K
Optimal
For server systems, we recommend using a lower array block size. For multimedia
computer systems used mainly for audio and video editing, we recommend a higher
array block size for optimum performance.
• The RAID mode is set to Mirrored by default.
• Not all RAID modes are supported on all platforms. (If the server only has two
HDDs, it only supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 mode.)
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