Promise Management(PAM) FastTrack S150 SX$ and SX4000 Series User Manual

Chapter 5: RAID Monitoring and Maintenance

Arrays

Create an Array

1. In Tree View, click the + to the left of the Controller icon to see the

Channels. Click the + to the left of each Channel

icon to see the

unassigned disk drives. Unassigned drives have this

icon.

The available RAID selection depends on the number of disk drives

available. The table below lists the Levels and drives required.

See the Appendix A for a more detailed description.

RAID Level Name

Minimum

drives

Maximum

drives

0 Striping 2 4

1 Mirroring 2 2

0+1 Striping + Mirroring 4 4

5 Distributed Parity 3 4

JBOD Single Drive 1 4

Table 3. RAID Levels available with FastTrak SX4000 series and S150 SX4.

2. Right-click on the Controller icon and

select New Array from the popup menu

(right). A Create Array icon appears.