Creating A Raid; Expanding A Raid - Thecus N4100PRO User Manual

Disk Settings
Item
RAID
Spare
Stripe Size
Add Spare
Create RAID
Remove

Creating a RAID

To create a RAID volume, follow the steps below:
1. On the RAID List screen, click New.
2. On the RAID Configuration screen, set the RAID storage space as JBOD,
RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10 — see
RAID Basics
3. Tick the checkboxes under the "member" heading of the hard disks you
wish to use to create a RAID.
4. Specify a stripe size — 64K is the default setting.
5. Press Apply to build the RAID storage volume.
NOTE
WARNING
With a RAID 1 or RAID 5 volume, you can also add a spare disk after the RAID is
created. See Chapter 7: Tips and Tricks >

Expanding a RAID

To expand a RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10 volume, follow the steps below:
1. Replace one of the hard drives in the RAID volume and allow it to
automatically rebuild.
2. Once rebuilt, you can continue to replace any remaining disks in the RAID
array.
3. When you are done replacing hard drives, log on to Web Management.
Navigate to Storage > RAID to open the RAID List screen.
4. On the RAID List screen, select the RAID volume by clicking on its radio
button, and click RAID Config to open the RAID Configuration screen.
Description
Check the boxes of the hard drives you wish to add to the
storage volume.
Check a box to designate the replacement HDD for the storage
volume. This becomes the backup for any damaged hard drives.
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.
Press this button to add a new Spare disk.
Press this button to configure a file system and create the RAID
storage volume.
Click to remove the RAID volume. All user data will be removed.
for a detailed description of each.
Building a RAID storage space may take time, dep
hard drives and RAID mode.
Creating RAID destroys all data in the current RAID volume. The data is
unrecoverable.
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Appendix C:
ending on the size of
Adding a Spare Disk for details.