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3. Press <TAB> 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.

6.2.3 Creating a RAID Volume

To create a RAID 0 set:

1. From the Dene a New Array menu, select

RAID

Mode, then press <Enter>. A pop-up menu

appears.

Use the up or down arrow keys to select a RAID

mode , then press <Enter>. You can select either

Mirroring, Striping, Spanning, Stripe Mirroring, or RAID 5.

Mirroring

Striping

Stripe Mirroring

Spanning

RAID5

2. Press <TAB> to select the Striping Block option, then

press <Enter>. 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.

8K ↑

16K

32K

64K

128K

Optim ↓

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 Mirroring by default.

• Not all RAID modes are supported on all platforms. (This server only

has two HDDs that only supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 mode.)

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