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RAID Information
Item
Master RAID
ID
RAID Level
Status
Disks Used
Total Capacity
Data Capacity
iSCSI 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, click create.
Description
The RAID volume currently designated as the Master RAID
volume.
ID of the current RAID volume.
NOTE: All RAID IDs must be unique.
Shows the current RAID configuration.
Indicates status of the RAID. Can read either Healthy,
Degraded, or Damaged.
Hard disks used to form the current RAID volume.
Total capacity of the current RAID.
Indicates the used capacity and total capacity used by user data.
Indicates the capacity allocated to iSCSI.
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.
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