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D-Link Document – User Manual
A storage pool can be made of up to 512 RAID sets, which can use different RAID levels. File
systems for file sharing and volumes for iSCSI LUNs are created from the storage pool. Please
check the following graph.
Take an example of creating a pool
.
1.
Click the
Create
icon.
2.
Enter a
Pool Name
.
3.
Use the drop-down list to select a
RAID level
.
4.
Check the
Set up Home Directory
if the pool contains home directory.
5.
Optionally, configure the following:
Write Cache:
It’s to enable or disable the write cache option of hard drives.
Standby:
It’s to enable or disable the auto spindown function of hard drives, when this
option is enabled and hard drives have no I/O access after certain period of time, they
will spin down automatically.
Readahead:
It’s to enable or disable the read ahead function.
Command queuing:
It’s to enable or disable the hard drives’ command queue function.
6.
Check Enable for
Pool encrypt
and enter the encrypt key if necessary. Check
Auto unlock
will
unlock the pool upon the next reboot. Otherwise, it cannot be used except entering the
encrypt key on every reboot.
7.
Select disks from below, and then click
Next
button.
FileSystem
Volume
FileSystem
FileSystem
Volume
Volume
FileSystem
FileSystem
RAID set 3
RAID 6
RAID set 2
RAID 5
Pool
RAID set 1
RAID 0