Thecus N16000 Series User Manual page 54

Total Capacity
Data Capacity
Create a RAID
On the RAID Information screen, press the create button to go to the CREAT
RAID screen. In addition to RAID disk information and status, this screen lets you
make RAID configuration settings.
Using Create RAID, you can select stripe size, choose which disks are RAID disks or
the Spare Disk. .
RAID Configurations
Item
Disk No.
Capacity (MB)
Model
Status
Used
Spare
Master RAID
Stripe Size
Data Percentage
Create
To create a RAID volume, follow the steps below:
1. On the RAID Information screen, clicks create.
2. On the RAID Configuration screen, set the RAID storage space as JBOD,
RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50 or RAID 60 — see
Appendix B: RAID Basics
NOTE
3. Specify a RAID ID.
4. If this RAID volume is meant to be the Master RAID volume, tick the Master
RAID checkbox.
NOTE
Total capacity of the current RAID.
Indicates the used capacity and total capacity used by user data.
Description
Number assigned to the installed hard disks.
Capacity of the installed hard disks.
Model number of the installed hard disks.
Status of the installed hard disks.
If this is checked, current hard disk is a part of a RAID volume.
If this is checked, current hard disk is designated as a spare for a
RAID volume.
Check a box to designate this as the Master RAID volume. See the
NOTE below for more information.
This sets the stripe size to maximize performance of sequential
files in a storage volume. Keep the 64K setting unless you require
a special file storage layout in the storage volume. A larger stripe
size is better for large files.
The percentage of the RAID volume that will be used to store data.
Press this button to configure a file system and create the RAID
storage volume.
for a detailed description of each.
N12000/N16000 has multi RAID volume supported. Each
system allowed 5 RAID volumes been created.
In a multiple RAID configuration, one RAID volume must be designated as the
Master RAID volume. The Master RAID volume will store all installed modules. If
the Master RAID is changed to another location (i.e. assigning volume 2 to be
the Master RAID volume after volume 1 had been previously assigned), then all
modules must be reinstalled. In addition, all system folders that were contained
on the Master RAID volume will be invisible. Reassigning this volume to be the
Master RAID will make these folders visible again.
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