User`s manual

AEC-6885 User’s Manual

Figure 3-4

Select any array in “Set RAID Modes”, then press <Enter> to select a RAID mode.

After selection, the screen will prompt “Please select disks to create array”, and the

cursor will move to the display area of hard drive at the bottom of the screen. Use

<á>,<â> to select hard drives. Green highlighted items can be selected but purple

ones cannot. After selecting the hard drive, press <Esc> to return to the dialog box

of “Set RAID Modes” and continue.

NOTICE: AEC-6885 supports Hot Swap. In Mirroring (RAID 1 and 0+1),

when one of the hard drives is damaged, you can directly replace it with

a new one without powering off. The data of another hard drive in the

array will be completely copied into the new one. When applying Hot

Swap (together with ACARD’s HDD cabinet), you can only connect a

hard drive to each channel, and set as the same mode (Master).

3.2.1 Stripe Mode

This mode needs a pair of hard drives at least. After selection, you have to to deter-

mine the hard drives’ stripe block size. That depends on the size of files the array

intends to access in order to use the hard drives fully. For example, you can select

a larger stripe size for the array of random access, and a smaller one for that of

sequential access. If there isn’t any special use, you are suggested to set as 64K.