Raid Params Menu - Accusys ACS-8910 User Manual

4.3.2 RAID Params menu

The RAID Params menu configures the ACS-8910 for the different supported RAID levels. To avoid
accidentally erasing an existing configuration you specified, using the "11 Re-Conf RAID" option, if
you want to change the configuration.
NOTE: Any changes made to 11 Re-Conf RAID, 12 RAID Level, 13 Disk Number, 14 Slice and
15 Stripe will cause data on the drives to be permanently erased.
Sub-menu
11 Reconf RAID
Description:
Sub-menu
12 RAID Level
Description:
Sub-menu
13 Disk Number
Description :
Sub-menu
14 Slice
Description
Sub-menu
15 Stripe Size
Description:
Sub-menu
16 Write Buffer
Description:
Settings
No, Yes
Change an existing RAID configuration.
Settings
0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, None
Specify a RAID Level.
Settings
16,14,12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2
Specify the number of disks in an array. The number
is based on the number of physical disks installed.
Sub-menu
141 Slice0 – 148 Slice7
Slice will allow to divide the partition size
Settings
128, 64, 32, 16, 8,
Specify the size in blocks (1 block = 512 bytes) the
data stripe written to the disks.
Settings
Enable, Disable
Use to buffer write operations using memory.
This helps to improve the write performance for
RAID 5 configuration.
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Default setting
No
Default setting
0+1
Default setting
12
Setting
(MB)
Default setting
128
Default setting
Enable