Technical information

How Do I Do an Assisted Configuration?
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requesting a RAID 5 (striping with parity) configuration. If you choose
Performance, you’ll be requesting a RAID 0+1 (striping with mirroring)
configuration. Both give you the safety of fault tolerance. RAID 5 provides
the best combination of settings for most applications and has overhead of
only one drive’s capacity. RAID 0+1 has a write performance advantage over
RAID 5, but since the striped set is mirrored, available capacity is only half
of the total capacity in the drive set.
☞ If you want to optimize your array for capacity, press Enter
with Capacity selected.
☞ If you want to optimize your array for performance, use the
arrow key to select Performance, then press Enter (Figure 2-12).
Figure 2-12. Optimize for Performance?
❑ Logical Drive Count
The Logical Drive Count screen is always displayed in Assisted
Configuration. You may divide the available drive space into multiple logical
drives, or retain the default of one (1) logical drive.
The Logical Drive Count screen is displayed (Figure 2-13).
Figure 2-13. Logical Drive Count
Each logical drive that you create under Assisted Configuration will have