Setting Raid 0; Setting Raid 0+1; Setting Raid 5; Setting Raid 5+Spare - Accusys ACUTA User Manual

Chapter 4 – Setting up an array

Setting RAID 0

1. Ensure ACUTA is turned off.
2. Move both selector switches 1 and 2 to ON
as shown.

Setting RAID 0+1

1. Ensure ACUTA is turned off.
2 Move selector switch 1 to ON and 2 to OFF
as shown

Setting RAID 5

1. Ensure ACUTA is turned off .
2 Move both selector switch 1 and 2 to OFF.

Setting RAID 5+spare

1. Ensure ACUTA is turned off.
2. Move selector switch 1 to OFF and 2 to ON.
In a RAID 5+spare array, the drive in the TOP drive carrier is the hot
spare and its status indicator will be shown amber for notification.
In a RAID 0+1 array, disk 1 , 2 and disk 3 , 4 are two independent RAID
1group . This allows one disk from each separate R1 group to fail
simultaneously.
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