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Create New RAID and Join Disk to Storage Pool

Steps to Create a New RAID and Join Disk to Storage Pool:

1. Click Create New RAID.

2. Set the RAID Level and Stripe size, and select the hard disk drives to be included in the RAID

disk. To initialize the RAID, remove the check mark in Without initializing option.

RAID Configuration Options

RAID Level

Select the RAID Level you want for the RAID configuration. Available options, depending on

number of disk drives, are: JBOD, 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10

Stripe Size

Set the size of the stripe (block size or chunk size) written to each disk drive. Default is 64KB.

Other options are: 128KB, 256KB, 512KB and 1024KB

Without initializing

Use this initialize or not initialize the RAID. Default is not to initialize the RAID (with check

mark). For first time use, it is recommended to initialize the RAID to ensure the previous

RAID data in the disk drives are cleared

NOTE: A large stripe size produces better read performance if the NAS does mostly sequential reads. If the

NAS will do mostly random reads, small stripe size is recommended.