Gateway 9510 User Manual page 127

Chapter 6: Configuring your RAID solutions
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When the drives are defined, click
definition screen opens.
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Select the
RAID Level
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Select the
Stripe Size
Specify the size of the segment written to each disk in a RAID configuration. You can
set the stripe size to 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or 128 Kbytes. The default is 64 Kbytes.
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Select the
Read Policy
Enables the read-ahead feature for the logical drive. You can set this parameter to
,
Normal Read-ahead
read-ahead for the current logical drive.
consecutive stripes are read and buffered into cache. This option will improve
performance for sequential reads.
readahead if the two most recent disk accesses occurred in sequential sectors.
Read-ahead
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from the list.
from the list.
from the list.
, or .
Adaptive
is the default setting.
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, then click
Accept Array
specifies that the controller does not use
Normal
specifies that additional
Read-ahead
specifies that the controller begins using
Adaptive
. The Logical Drive
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