Promise Technology 150TX2 user manual Assigning Drives to Array, Creating a Striped Array

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual

Assigning Drive(s) to Array

1.Under the Drive Assignments section, highlight a drive by pressing the ↑ and ↓ keys.

2.Press the Spacebar to change the Assignable option to Y to add the drive to the disk array.

3.Press Ctrl-Y to save the disk array information. Depending on the array type selected, the following scenarios will take place:

•If choosing a Striping or Mirroring/Striping array, the initial Define Array Menu screen will appear with the arrays defined. From there you may ESC to exit and return to the Main Menu of FastBuild.

•If you selected a Mirroring array for two drives, there is an additional window that appears as described in order to create the array. To do this you will use either two brand new drives, or one drive that contains existing data that you wish to mirror.

Creating a Striped Array

As described in the Drive Assignments Option section above, if you selected a performance array, follow the directions here.

1.Set the Stripe Block size. 64 KB is the default.

2.Assign new drives to the Performance array.

You may assign from one to four drives. If you assign only one drive, there will be no performance benefit

3.Save the information by pressing Ctrl-Y. You will return to the Define Array Menu.

Your system will reboot when you exit the FastBuild Utility.

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