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Creating a RAID set

To create a RAID set

1.From the utility main menu, select 1. Create RAID Volume and press <Enter>. The following screen appears.

Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v8.0.0.1038 ICH10R wRAID5

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[ CREATE VOLUME MENU ]

Name: Volume0

RAID Level: RAID0(Stripe)

Disks: Select Disks

Strip Size: 128KB

Capacity: 0.0 GB

Create Volume

[ HELP ]

Enter a unique volume name that has no special characters and is

16 characters or less.

 

 

 

[↑↓]Change

[TAB]-Next

[ESC]-Previous Menu

[ENTER]-Select

2.

Enter a name for the RAID set and press <Enter>.

 

 

 

3.

When the RAID Level item is selected, press the up/down arrow key to select a RAID

 

level to create, and then press <Enter>.

 

 

 

 

4.

When the Disks item is selected, press <Enter> to select the hard disk drives you want

 

to include in the RAID set. The SELECT DISKS screen appears.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ SELECT DISKS ]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Port Drive Model

Serial #

Size

Status

 

 

 

 

 

0

ST3160812AS

9LS0HJA4

149.0GB

Non-RAID Disk

 

 

 

 

1

ST3160812AS

9LS0F4HL

149.0GB

Non-RAID Disk

 

 

 

2

ST3160812AS

3LS0JYL8

149.0GB

Non-RAID Disk

 

 

3

ST3160812AS

9LS0BJ5H

149.0GB

Non-RAID Disk

 

 

 

 

Select 2 to 6 disks to use in creating the volume.

 

 

 

 

[↑↓]-Prev/Next [SPACE]-SelectDisk [ENTER]-Done

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.

Use the up/down arrow key to select a drive, and then press <Space> to select. A small

 

triangle marks the selected drive. Press <Enter> after completing your selection.

6.

Use the up/down arrow key to select the stripe size for the RAID array (for RAID 0, 10

 

and 5 only), and then press <Enter>. The available stripe size values range from 4 KB

 

to 128 KB. The following are typical values:

 

 

 

 

 

RAID 0: 128KB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAID 10: 64KB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAID 5: 64KB

 

 

 

 

 

 

We recommend a lower stripe size for server systems, and a higher stripe size for multimedia computer systems used mainly for audio and video editing.

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