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Figure 24. Configuring a Unit in 3DM

For more detailed instructions, see “Creating a Unit through 3DM” on page 82.

Type. The drop-down list lists the possible RAID configurations for the drives selected in the list of Available Drives. Available configurations may include RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, Single Disk, and Spare Disk. For information about these configurations, see “Available RAID Configurations” on page 9.

When you are configuring a RAID 50 with twelve drives, an additional field appears, in which you select the number of drives per subunit—3, 4, or 6.

Figure 25. Configuring a RAID 50 with 12 Drives

Stripe. The drop-down list of stripe sizes lists the possible stripe sizes for the configuration you selected in the RAID level drop-down.

The default stripe size of 64KB will give the best performance with applications that have many sequential reads and writes. A larger stripe size will give better performance with applications that have a lot of random reads

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Contents

Supports the 9000 Series User Guide Disclaimer CopyrightTrademarks 3ware Disk Manager 3DM Browser Requirements for 3DM Setting up Mozilla Installing 3DM on a Windows system Installing 3DM DM Remote Monitoring and Security Configuration Display DM E-mail Notification Preferences Installing 3DM for Linux or FreeBSD Uninstalling 3DM under Microsoft Windows Default answer is no Eject the CD-ROM disk when finished Uninstalling 3DM under Linux or FreeBSD Starting 3DM under Windows Starting 3DM and LoggingStarting 3DM under Linux Logging Viewing 3DM Remotely via a Standard Web Browser DM Main Screen Working with the 3DM Screens DM Menu Bar 3DM Menus Refreshing the Screen Viewing Information About Different Controllers in 3DM3DM Screens and What Theyre Used For List of 3DM Pages 3DM will use for listening Setting and Changing 3DM Passwords Setting Up 3DM Preferences Managing E-mail Event Notification Click Save E-mail Settings Setting the Frequency of Page Refreshes Enabling and Disabling Remote AccessSetting the Incoming Port # Running Two Versions of 3DM Controller Summary 3DM 2 Reference 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Controller Details Controller Details Unit Information Unit Information Unit Details Unit Details 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Drive Information Drive Information M.A.R.T Data Smart Details About Drive at Particular Port Background Task Rate Controller Settings Unit Policies Unit Write Cache Other Controller Settings Scheduling Scheduling About Self-tests About Task Schedules 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Rescan Controller Maintenance Unit Maintenance Maintenance Task Buttons 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For FreeBSD, the command would be Available Drives to Create Units Configuring a Unit in 3DM Alarms Alarms 3DM 2 Reference Mail Notification 3DM Settings Refresh Password Incoming Port # Remote Access