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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 8: Configuration | Creating a New Storage Configuration
3. Select the following items on the Create Drive Group - Drive Group Settings
Window:
a. Select the RAID level desired for the drive group from the drop-down menu. To
make a spanned drive, select RAID 10, RAID 50, or RAID 60 in the RAID level
field.
Drive Group 0 and Span 0 appear in the Drive groups field when you select
RAID 10, 50, or 60.
The RAID controller supports RAID levels 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60. In addition, it
supports independent drives (configured as RAID 0 and RAID 00). The dialog
text gives a brief description of the RAID level that you select. You can choose
the RAID levels depending on the number of available drives. To learn more
about RAID levels, see
Chapter 2, Introduction to RAID .
b. Scroll down the menu for the Drive security method field if you want to set a
drive security method.
The drive security feature provides the ability to encrypt data and use
disk-based key management for your data security solution. This solution
provides protection to the data in the event of theft or loss of drives. See
Section 11.6, LSI SafeStore Encryption Services , for more information about drive
security and encryption.
c. Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives and click Add> to add them to
the drive group.
The selected drives appear under Span 0 below Drive Group 0, as shown in the
following figure.
Figure 213: Span 0 of Drive Group 0