Choose Type; Strip Size; Choose Build Type; Create Array Drive Confirmation - Intel SRCU31A - Server RAID U3-1A Controller User Manual

After pressing <Enter>, StorCon displays a list of possible RAID levels. See Figure 58. Then
StorCon prompts you for the stripe size. This is the size of the stripes into which the data is
divided. Valid values are 16KB, 32KB, 64KB or 128KB. The default is 128KB. See Figure 59.
Figure 58. Choose Type
Figure 59. Strip Size
The Build Type decides how the redundancy information is created. The Destructive Build (only
available if StorCon was loaded with <Ctrl> + <G>) fills all hard disk drives with "0" and no
further parity calculation is necessary. This build method is pretty fast, but the build must be
successfully finished before you can leave StorCon (otherwise the build mode is automatically
changed to Non-destructive during the next boot). The Non-destructive build calculates the
redundancy information from the contents of the data stripes. It takes longer, but can run in the
background, for example, during the installation of the operating system. See Figure 60.
Figure 60. Choose Build Type
A warning displays that all data will be destroyed after confirmation. (Figure 61). Confirm the
choice by pressing <Y>. The array drive is created.
Figure 61. Create Array Drive Confirmation
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