Promise Technology FastTrak TX4650 User Manual page 50

FastTrak TX4650, TX2650 User Manual
3. Choose the RAID Level you want. In the Define LD Menu section, press the
Spacebar to toggle through logical drive types:
• RAID 0 (Stripe)
• RAID 1 (Mirror)
• RAID 5 (Distributed Parity)
• RAID 10 (Stripe/Mirror)
You can create your two logical drives with different RAID levels. But you
cannot combine a logical drive and JBOD.
Only the FastTrak TX4650 supports RAID 5 and RAID 10. See "Introduction
to RAID" on page 109 for more information.
4. Press the down arrow key to move to the next option. Option choices
depend on the RAID Level you selected.
• Fast Init erases the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the physical drives
when this feature is set to ON. ON is recommended.
• Gigabyte Boundary enables replacement of a failed physical drive with a
slightly smaller physical drive when this feature is set to ON. ON is
recommended.
• Stripe Block Size. Set to 16 KB with no options.
5. Press the down arrow key to move to Disk Assignments. Press the spacebar
to toggle between N and Y for each available drive. Y means this physical
drive will be assigned to the logical drive.
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