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Promise Technologies Pegasus J4User Manual
Conguration Example - Create a RAID 10 set
1. Open Disk Utility, in the Utilities folder.
2. Select one of the disks that you want in the set, and then click RAID.
3. Click Add (+), and type a name for the RAID set.
4. Choose a format from the Format pop-up menu, and then choose Striped RAID Set from the RAID Type pop-up menu.
5. Drag two disks to the list on the right.
6. Click the Options button to specify an optimal storage block size for the data stored.
Set the block size to match the size of data stored on the set. For example, a video processing application require fast throughput of large amount
of data, so a larger block size might be best.
7. Click Create.
8. Repeatsteps1-7fortheremainingtwodisks.
ereshouldnowbetwostripedRAIDsetsvisible.InordertocreateastripedRAIDwiththeseRAID0sets,itisnecessarytounmounttheRAID
sets.
9. Select one of the striped RAID sets and click on the Unmount button. Repeat this for the other striped RAID set.
10. Select one of the unmounted striped RAID sets, and click RAID.
11. Click Add (+), and type a name for the combined RAID set.
12. Choose a format from the Format pop-up menu, and then choose Mirrored RAID Set from the RAID Type pop-up menu.
13. Drag each of the striped RAID sets to the list on the right to add them to the combined RAID set.
14. For each disk, select it, and then choose RAID Slice from the RAID Type pop-up menu.
15. To rebuild disks automatically when they’re disconnected then reconnected, click the Options button, select RAID Mirror AutoRebuild, and
then click OK.
16. Click Create.
Create striped RAID sets
Unmount striped RAID sets
Combined RAID set (RAID 10)