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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: WebBIOS Configuration Utility | Creating a Storage Configuration
In addition, RAID 5 is good for any application that has high read request rates but low
write request rates.
When you select Manual Configuration and click Next, the Drive Group Definition
dialog appears. You use this dialog to select drives to create drive groups.
1. Hold Ctrl while you select at least three ready drives in the Physical Drives panel
on the left.
2. Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in
the Drive Groups panel on the right, as shown in Figure 38 .
3. If you need to undo the changes, click Reclaim.
4. Choose whether to use power save mode.
5. Choose whether to use drive encryption.
Figure 38: Drive Group Definition Dialog
6. After you finish selecting drives for the drive group, click Accept DG.
7. Click Next.
The Virtual Drive Definition dialog appears, as shown in Figure 39 . You use this
dialog to select the RAID level, strip size, read policy, and other attributes for the
new virtual drives.