Creating And Deleting Logical Drive (Array) - NEC Express5800 series User Manual

3.3 Creating and Deleting Logical Drive (Array)

The creation method of a logical drive and the deletion method are explained here. If you create
logical drives, do not reuse failure HDDs. Please always use new HDDs.
MSM allows the following logical drives to be created:
RAID 0 (data striping with more than one hard disk drive)
RAID 1 (data mirroring with two hard disk drives)
RAID 5 (Data striping including parity with more than two hard disk drives)
RAID 1 spanning (Same as RAID10. Data mirroring and striping with more than three
hard disk drives)
RAID 5 spanning (Same as RAID50. Data striping including parity and striping with
more than five hard disk drives)
NOTES:
Do not use the following hard disk drives to create a logical
While a logical drive is created, system shutdown and
Available RAID level depends on MegaRAID Storage
drive.
– Hard disk drive with partitions
– Hard disk drive used for another array
insertion/removal of a hard disk drive are not permitted
till the creation process is completed.
System. Please check "4.1 Supported function of
MegaRAID Systems"for more detail.
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