3Ware 7000-2 - Escalade RAID Controller, User Manual

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3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide
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Determining your configuration
Hint:
The capacity of each drive is limited to the
capacity of the smallest drive in the array. The total
array capacity is defined as follows:
RAID 0: (the number of drives) X (the capacity of the smallest drive)
RAID 1: the capacity of the smallest drive
RAID 5: (the number of drives - 1) X (capacity of the smallest drive)
RAID10: (the number of drives / 2) X (capacity of smallest drive)
Navigate to the Create Array button after selecting all the drives
for the array. Hit Enter to bring up the Create Disk Array display
(see Figure 12 and Figure 13 for examples). Check that the proper
drives are listed.
Figure 12. Create Disk Array Display, RAID 0 Example
C r e a t e D i s k A r r a y
Help Alt-F1
Change Value Enter
Previous/Next
Note: Creating an array will overwrite existing data on its drives.
Create a disk array from these drives:
Port 0 - QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 30.0GB
Port 1 - QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 30.0GB
Select RAID Configuration:
Array's Write Cache State:
Stripe (RAID 0)
enable
Cancel OK
Cancel Esc
Stripe Size:
64 KB
128KB
256KB
512KB
1mb