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Here are brief explanations of the virtual drive options:

• RAID Level: The drop-down menu lists the possible RAID levels for the

virtual drive. Select RAID 1.

• Strip Size: The strip size species the size of the segment written to

each disk in a RAID conguration. You can set the strip size up to 64 KB.

A larger strip size produces higher read performance. If your computer

regularly performs random read requests, choose a smaller strip size.

The default is 64 KB.

• Access Policy: Select the type of data access that is allowed for this

virtual drive:

◊ RW: Allow read/write access. This is the default.

◊ Read Only: Allow read-only access.

◊ Blocked: Do not allow access.

• Read Policy: Specify the read policy for this virtual drive:

◊ Normal: This disables the read ahead capability.

◊ Ahead: This enables read ahead capability, which allows the

controller to read sequentially ahead of requested data and to store

the additional data in cache memory, anticipating that the data will be

needed soon. This speeds up reads for sequential data, but there is

little improvement when accessing random data. This is the default.

• Write Policy: Specify the write policy for this virtual drive:

◊ Write Through: In Write Through mode the controller sends a data

transfer completion signal to the host when the drive subsystem has

received all of the data in a transaction.

◊ Always Write Back: In Writeback mode the controller sends a data

transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has

received all of the data in a transaction. This setting is recommended

in Standard mode.

◊ Write Back with BBU: In Writeback mode the controller sends a data

transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has

received all of the data in a transaction. This setting has to be used

with a Battery Backup Unit (BBU). This is the default.

• IO Policy: The IO Policy applies to reads on a specic virtual drive. It

does not affect the read ahead cache.

◊ Direct: In direct I/O mode, reads are not buffered in cache memory.

Data is transferred to the cache and the host concurrently. If the same

data block is read again, it comes from cache memory.

◊ Cached: In cached I/O mode, all reads are buffered in cache memory.

This is the default.

• Drive Cache: Specify the drive cache policy:

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