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Using the NVIDIA MediaShield RAID Management Utility
7 Select one of the disks and click Next, then Finish..
New RAID Array
Figure 3.113
Note: As you can see from the above screen shot, only 2/3 of the disk space is actually
used by RAID 5 since 1/3 of the disk space is used for to store parity information.
The Migrating Process
As you can see from the screen shot above, a three disk RAID 5 array has been created and
the migrating process has begun. A pop up window similar to the following will appear:
followed by the following pop up window:
It will take some time before the entire process is completed. The time is takes to convert
an array is dependent on several factors such as the speed of the CPU, the size and type of
hard drive being used, the operating system, etc.
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