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4.
Highlight the target disks that you want to use, and press Enter
key to select them. A numeral will be displayed before each
selected disk. This number designates disk order. After all of the
disks have been selected and press the ESC key to return to the
Create Menu.
5.
Next, Use the
↓
arrow key to highlight the Capacity(GB) option
and press Enter key. The total available capacity will be displayed.
Press Enter key if you wish to use all available space. If you wish
to reserve disk space for additional arrays/single disks, use the
keyboard to input the amount of space (in GB) you wish to set
aside for this particular array, and press Enter key.
Note: Multiple arrays can be created using the same set of hard disk
drives. The Capacity option allows you to set aside disk space that be
used to create another array, set as a spare disk, or partitioned to act
as a single disk (by the operating system).
6.
For redundant RAID arrays (RAID 5, 50), select the Cache Policy:
Write Back
–
Provides higher write performance for redundant
RAID arrays. Data is at risk when there is a power failure, system
kernel panic and un-responding abnormal conditions.
Write Through
–
Writes directly to the disks (may reduce the risk
of data loss during a critical failure, but at the cost of lower
performance).
