ESS Series
User’s Manual
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Figure 3-22
3.4.3.1
Add RAID configuration
Click add button, you can see the following interface.
In Figure 3-23, administrator can select RAID type (RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, and JBOD)
and then select the member disk. The damaged or used disks will not be listed in current
interface. Please click save button to finish the operation.
You can see the disk array enclosure from the location dropdown list if you have connected to
the disk array enclosure. Otherwise, you can not see this item.
About chunk depth
Chunk depth setup here can affect device storage capability. Please refer to your technical
engineer first and then input the proper value you calculated according to actual I/O data. The
default value is 16.
Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information.
RAID Type
Disk Needed
RAID0/JBOD
At least 2 disks.
RAID1
Only 2 disks.
RAID3
At least 3 disks.
RAID10
At least 4 disks.
RAID5
At least 3 disks. Usually we recommend the RAID4 includes 4
to 6 disks.
RAID6
At least 4 disks.
RAID50
At least 6 disks.
RAID60
At least 8 disks.