4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X

User Manual

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.2.7 RAID GROUPS OVERVIEW

RAID Groups allow Enter values in all fields and click Create to create the RAID Group.

FIELD

DEFINITION

 

 

RAID Group

Enter an identifiable name for the RAID group. This value can be any string (up to 8

Label

characters including blank spaces) to help users identify this volume.

 

 

RAID Group

Select a Group ID from the available ID list. The maximum number of RAID Groups

per controller is 8, so Group ID can be any number between 0 and 7, inclusive.

 

 

 

 

Select which RAID level is to be used to configure these members:

 

• Contiguous (for virtual disk).

 

• Concatenated (for multiple concatenated segments).

Configuration

• Striped (for RAID 0)

 

• Mirrored (for RAID 1)

 

• Mirrored Striped (for RAID 10)

 

• Parity RAID (for RAID 5)

 

 

 

Select a value to define the total usable capacity of the RAID Group or manually

Capacity

enter the volume size in gigabytes (GB). Selecting MAX will create the largest RAID

 

set possible with the drive(s) selected.

 

 

 

Select a value to define the chunk size (stripe size) for performance tuning. In

 

general, large stripe sizes are best for large files that are accessed sequentially (for

Chunk Size

example, media streaming files) and smaller sizes are better for randomly accessed

 

data like databases. This parameter is not used for Contiguous (JBOD),

 

Concatenated, and Mirrored configurations.

 

 

 

Select a value to identify how quickly the controller should rebuild data on a disk

 

after a hardware failure. A value of 1 is the lowest priority and will take the longest

Rebuild

to rebuild. A value of 10 is the highest priority and will rebuild the fastest, but may

Priority

require more CPU resources, which might affect the computer’s performance. This

 

parameter is not used for Contiguous (JBOD), Concatenated, and Striped

 

configurations.

 

 

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RSV-S4-X specifications

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