Avago Technologies MegaRAID SATA 150-4 (523) User Manual

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Creating a RAID 50 Volume with Windows 2000

Select Striped volume, this will enable you to use the capacity of all
disks connected to your SATA adapter. In this example, we are
demonstrating 6 drives connected to two MegaRAID 150-6 adapters.
However, you can scale up to 6 drives on each adapter (or 4 drives
on each 150-4 adapter).

You also have the opportunity to select different array types including
(options vary depending on the version of Windows you are running):

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RAID 5 volume: Data and parity striped across three or more
disks.

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Simple volume: Single or multiple linked regions on one disk.
Contains no fault tolerance, but can be mirrored.

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Striped volume: Data striped evenly on two or more disks.
Contains no fault tolerance and cannot be mirrored.

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Mirrored volume: Data duplicated on two disks.

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Spanned volume: Data is spanned across multiple disks or
parts of multiple disks. No fault tolerance or mirroring.

Click Next, the Create Volume window opens. All available disks will
display, select Disk 1 and Disk 2.

Figure 2.7

Create a Volume