Creating An Array - HighPoint RocketRAID 4520 User Manual

Creating an Array

1. Navigate to the disk panel (ALT + W, then press 1.)
2. Select each disk you wish to include in your array.
3. Press ALT + A to open array panel.
4. Press Create:
5. Press Spacebar to navigate and make selections (TAB also navigates.)
Array Type
Cache Policy
Init Method
Refer to RAID Level Reference Guide for
information about different levels.
RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 1/0, 5/0, and JBOD
Write-back -Any data written to the array
will be stored as cache, resulting in better
I/O performance at the risk of data
failures due to power outages. Data will be
stored as cache before it is physically
written to the disk; when a power outage
occurs, any data in the cache will be lost.
Write-through -Data written to an array is
directly written onto the disk, meaning
lower write performance for higher data
availability. Without cache acting as a
buffer, write performance will be
noticeably slower but data loss due to
power outages or other failures is
significantly minimized.
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Quick Init- This option grants
immediate access to the RAID array by
skipping the initialization process, but
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