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Configuring Units
Specifying the Unit Configuration
You can implement one or more units of supported RAID levels on
a single controller, depending on the number of drives that the
specific 3ware RAID controller supports and the number of drives
attached.
Basic Steps for Creating a Unit
The process of configuring your RAID units includes these main
steps, which are detailed in the step-by-step example:
Select the drives to be included and indicate that you want to
create a disk unit
Choose the desired RAID configuration
Set other parameters, depending on the type of RAID
configuration
Confirm the unit configuration
Save your changes
To select the drives and create a disk unit
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Select the drives to be included by highlighting each one and
pressing Enter to select it.
When you select a drive, an asterisk appears next to it in the
left-most column (see Figure 8).
You may include from one to twelve drives in the unit,
depending on the number available. (For information about
how many drives to select for a given RAID level, see Table 1
on page 31.)
To include drives that are part of an existing unit you
Note:
must first delete the other unit. Be cautious in doing this, as any
existing data on that unit will be overwritten.
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