User manual

The fields are defined as follows:

RAID Group Label: Provides an identifiable name for the RAID group. This field can be any ASCII string to help the

user identify this volume.

RAID Group: Select a Group ID from the available ID list. The maximum number of RAID Groups per controller

is 8 so Group ID can be any number between 0 and 7 inclusive.

Configuration: The configuration indicates which RAID level is to be used to configure these members. The

options are:

Contiguous (for virtual disk or JBOD)

Concatenated (for multiple concatenated segments)

Striped (for RAID 0)

Mirrored (for RAID 1)

Mirrored Striped (for RAID 10)

Parity RAID (for RAID 5)

Capacity: This defines the total usable capacity of the RAID Group. Either select an entry from the pull down

list or manually enter the volume size in Gigabytes. Selecting MAX will create the largest RAID set

possible with the drive(s) selected.

Chunk Size: Chunk size, also known as stripe size, is for advanced users who want to tune their box for the

greatest performance. In general, large stripe sizes are best for large files that are accessed

sequentially (e.g. media streaming files) whereas smaller sizes are better for randomly accessed

data like databases. This parameter is not used for Contiguous, Concatenated, Mirrored or JBOD

RAID levels.

Rebuild Priority: Rebuild priority indicates how quickly the controller should rebuild data on a disk following a

hardware failure. A value of 1 is the lowest priority and will take the longest to rebuild. A value of

10 is the highest priority and will rebuild the fastest but may require more CPU resources which

could have some impact on the computer’s performance. This parameter is not used for

Contiguous, Concatenated, Striped or JBOD RAID levels.

Devices: Select RAID member devices from the available device segment list. The minimum number of

disks is determined by the RAID level as shown in the following table.