5. RAID System Configuration
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Chapter 2 Useful Features
Menu
Value
Descriptions
Virtual Drive Management
> Create Configuration
Creating the RAID Configuration
Save Configuration
Storing the created configuration
Select RAID Level
Selecting the RAID level
Select Drives From
Selecting the HDD creating the Virtual Drive
Select Drives
Selecting the HDD creating the RAID
Virtual Drive Name
Virtual Drive name
Virtual Drive Size
Virtual Drive size
Virtual Drive Size Unit
Unit of the Virtual Drive size
Stripe Size
64 KB
Stripe size
Disk WC
Disable
Setting of the physical drive caching.
The recommended setting is
Enable
.
Read Ahead
Enable
Read ahead setting
Disable Background Initialization
No
Background Initialize setting
> Manage Virtual Drive Properties
Apply Changes
Reflecting the change
Select Virtual Drive
Virtual Drive selection
Virtual Drive Name
Virtual Drive name
Target ID
Virtual Drive ID
RAID Level
RAID level of the Virtual Drive
Virtual Drive Status
Optimal
Virtual Drive status
Virtual Drive Capacity (MB)
Virtual Drive size
Segment Size
64 KB
Stripe size
Disk WC
Disable
Cache setting of the Physical Drive
The recommended setting is
Enable
.
Read Ahead
Enable
Read Ahead setting
View Associated Drives
Displaying the HDD configuring the Virtual Drive
> Select Virtual Drive Operations
Virtual Drive operation
Select Virtual Drive
Virtual Drive selection
Start Locate
Device-dependent
Lights on (blink) the lamp of the slot to which the
selected Virtual Drive is mounted.
Stop Locate
Device-dependent
Lights off the lamp of the slot to which mounts
the selected Virtual Drive is mounted.
Delete Virtual Drive
Virtual Drive deletion
Virtual Drive Operation
Operations of the Virtual Drive
Stop Operation
Stop of the operations which were executed in
the Virtual Drive.
> View Drive Group Properties
Display of the area which is used by the
members configured in the Virtual Drive.