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Once the RAID51 volume has been created and formatted, it will appear in the
TerraBlock Manager ‘Volumes’ tab and will have the designation of ‘Tandem’ in the
‘Server’ column. The ‘DynaRAID’ column will display the volume as ‘RAID51’. The
RAID51 volume will have an arrow icon (Mac) or “+” icon (Windows) next to the
volume name. Double-clicking on the Volume name will cause the icon to turn down
and the individual server pieces that comprise the External Tandem volume will be
revealed. The individual pieces will be displayed as <volume name>~1, ~2, ~3, etc.
When working with External Tandem Volumes, is not necessary to select the
individual External Tandem pieces (~1, ~2, etc). Any action performed on
the External Tandem Volume, such as switching to Multi-user Write, should
be performed on the ‘combined’ volume (arrow up, no ~ pieces displayed).
RAID51 volumes are intended for use as Multi-user Write volumes. Choosing Multi-
user Write when creating the volume is recommended. The RAID50 Volume will be
set to Multi-user Write after the create volume process is complete, and is now
available to be mounted on any fibre or Ethernet TerraBlock client.
Formatting Options
When formatting volumes directly on a Windows 7 64bit, or Windows 10 64bit,
TerraBlock Server, volumes may be created up to 8 terabytes (8000 GB) in size.
Any HFS+ (MAC OS EXTENDED) volume larger than 2 TB created and formatted on a
Mac OSX client is not supported with Windows 32 bit operating systems (TerraBlock
Server or client).
Any HFS+ (MAC OS EXTENDED) volume created as a raw volume using the
TerraBlock Server or Windows client and then formatted as HFS+ using a Mac OSX
client is supported up to 8 TB.
When formatting volumes with a filesystem other than NTFS (Windows), or HFS+
(Apple), formatting of the volume must be done manually. In order to format a
volume on a client station, the user account must be given Write permission to the
volume and the volume must be mounted in Single-user Write mode. The Virtual
Volume can be formatted using the following applications:
Windows
Macintosh OS X
Linux
Disk Management
Disk Utility
Logical Volume Management (LVM)/Shell*
Parted
* See
Linux Setup
To prevent issues un-mounting volumes on Mac OSX clients,
when naming the volume on the client system when manually
formatting, you must use a volume label or name that
EXACTLY matches the TerraBlock volume name.
Never format a TerraBlock volume on a Mac as “Mac OS
Extended Journaled”. Journaled volumes are not supported.
