Two Modes Of Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion - Asus PCI-DA2100 User Manual

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users to add new SCSI hard disk drives and expand a RAID 0, 3 or 5
Logical Drive without powering down the system.
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Two Modes of Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion

There are two modes of Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion: Mode 1
and Mode 2.
Mode 1 Expansion involves adding more SCSI hard disk drives to a
logical drive, which may require that the user obtain an enclosure
with more drive bays. The data will be re-striped onto the original
and newly added disks.
RAID 5 Logical Drive - 4GB
RAID
Expansion
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On-line RAID Expansion
Mode 1
RAID Expansion - Mode 1
2GB
2GB
2GB
2GB
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Mode 2
2GB
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+
Add-in New Drives
2GB 2GB
2GB
RAID 5 Logical Drive - 8GB
2GB
2GB