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34 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 4.0
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Using the NVIDIA MediaShield RAID Management Utility
Viewing RAID Array Configurations
To view your RAID configuration from Windows, launch the MediaShield RAID
Management utility by double-clicking MediaShield.
The RAID configuration information appears in the right-side pane, as shown in Figure
3.1 .
Figure 3.1 MediaShield RAID Management Utility Window
The following are examples of the information displayed for the various RAID levels.
While the details of your own configuration will likely vary from what is shown, the
examples serve to illustrate the basic differences between the RAID levels.
Mirrored RAID Array
Figure 3.2 shows an example of a two hard drive mirrored array using identical 34.4 GB
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SATA hard drives (WD360GB), where one drive is configured as Primary and the other
drive is configured as Secondary.The total hard disk space used is 34.4 GB.
Figure 3.2
MediaShield Mirrored Array Information
1. 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes