Determining Your Configuration; Figure 12. Create Disk Array Display, Raid 0 Example - 3Ware 7000-2 - Escalade RAID Controller User Manual

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Determining your configuration

Hint:
capacity of the smallest drive in the array. The total
array capacity is defined as follows:
RAID 0: (the number of drives) X (the capacity of the smallest drive)
RAID 1: the capacity of the smallest drive
RAID 5: (the number of drives - 1) X (capacity of the smallest drive)
RAID10: (the number of drives / 2) X (capacity of smallest drive)
Navigate to the Create Array button after selecting all the drives
for the array. Hit Enter to bring up the Create Disk Array display
(see Figure 12 and Figure 13 for examples). Check that the proper
drives are listed.
Note: Creating an array will overwrite existing data on its drives.
Create a disk array from these drives:
Port 0
Port 1
Select RAID Configuration:
Array's Write Cache State:
Alt-F1 Help

Figure 12. Create Disk Array Display, RAID 0 Example

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The capacity of each drive is limited to the
C r e a t e D i s k A r r a y
- QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30
- QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30
Stripe (RAID 0)
enable
OK
Previous/Next
30.0GB
30.0GB
Stripe Size: 64 KB
Cancel
Enter Change Value
128KB
256KB
512KB
1mb
Esc Cancel
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