RocketRAID 152x Driver and Software Installation
3 - Creating an Array
To create an array:
1.
Highlight the “Management” menu, then select the “Array Management”
function.
2.
Click the Create button on the toolbar or select the “Create” command from the
“Operation” menu. The array creation wizard will appear.
3.
Select the desired RAID level from the drop-down list (RAID 0, 1 and JBOD are
supported by the RR152x cards).
4.
Enter a name for the array using the keyboard (this is optional), and click the Next
button.
5.
If you are creating a RAID 1 array, select an initialization option. If you are
creating a RAID 0 or JBOD (volume), skip to step 6:
For RAID1 arrays, the default initialization method is “No initialization”.
Write-back - when the write-back setting is selected, all write requests sent to
the array are cached. This will result in higher performance, but data loss may
occur in case of a power failure.
Write-through - when the write-through setting is selected, all write requests
sent to the array are passed directly to the disks. However, subsequent reads
may still be completed from the cache if appropriate.
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