Computer Accessories User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- About this User Guide
- Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller
- Introducing the 3ware® 9590SE-4ME RAID Controller
- 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction
- Configuring Your Controller
- Configuring Units
- Maintaining Units
- Checking Unit and Drive Status
- About Degraded Units
- About Inoperable Units
- Alarms, Errors, and Other Events
- Background Tasks
- Scheduling Background Tasks
- Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED
- Maintaining Your Controller
- 3DM 2 Reference
- Troubleshooting
- Appendices
- Index
Chapter 5. Configuring Units
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Name of the unit (optional)
Units can be given names. These names will be visible in 3DM.
Stripe size, if appropriate for the RAID level
In general, smaller stripe sizes are better for sequential I/O, such as video, and
larger stripe sizes are better for random I/O (such as databases).
Striping size is not applicable for RAID 1, because it is a mirrored array
without striping.
Using the default stripe size of 64KB usually gives you the best performance
for mixed I/Os. If your application has some specific I/O pattern (purely
sequential or purely random), you might want to experiment with a smaller or
larger stripe size.
Unit policies
Several unit policies are set when you create a new unit:
• Write Cache (enabled, by default)
• Drive Queuing (disabled, by default).
• Auto Verify (disabled, by default)
• Continue on Source Error During Rebuild (disabled, by default).
• StorSave Profile (Protection, by default)
You can change all of these policies after the unit has been created.
For a summary of what these policies do, see the discussion under “Setting
Unit Policies” on page 44. For how to adjust each one, see the procedures
later in this chapter.