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A. Create Array:
In the main screen, press ENTER on the Create RAID Disk Drive item. Then the RAID creation screen appears (Figure 5).
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[ Create New RAID ] 
Name: GRAID_
Level:
Disks: Select Disk
Block: 128 KB
Size: 240 GB
Confirm Creation
[ RAID Disk Drive List ]
[ Hard Disk Drive List ] |
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Mode Name | Available | Type/Status |
HDD0: ST3120026AS | 120 GB | |
HDD1: ST3120026AS | 120 GB |
[ Help ]
Enter RAID Name
Enter a string between 1 to 16 characters in length for the created RAID drive to be identified by system BIOS or OS.
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Figure 5
In the RAID creation screen, the Create New RAID block displays all the items that need to be set for creating an array (Figure 5). The following procedure uses RAID 0 creation as an example.
Steps:
1.Enter Array Name: Under the Name item, enter an array name with 1~16 letters (letters cannot be special characters) and press ENTER.
2.Select RAID Mode: Under the Level item, use UP or DOWN ARROW key to select RAID 0 (Stripe), RAID 1 (Mirror), or JBOD (Figure 6). Then press ENTER to move onto the next step.
GIGABYTE Technology Corp.
[ Create New RAID ]
Name: GRAID
Level:
Disks: Select Disk
Block: 128 KB
Size: 240 GB
Confirm Creation
[ RAID Disk Drive List ]
[ Hard Disk Drive List ] |
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Mode Name | Available | Type/Status |
HDD0: ST3120026AS | 120 GB | |
HDD1: ST3120026AS | 120 GB |
[ Help ]
| Select RAID Level | |
RAID 0 | - | Data striped for performance |
RAID 1 | - | Data mirrored for redundancy |
JBOD | - | Data concatenated for huge |
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| temporarily disk required |
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| Figure 6 |
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