Adaptec SATA AND SCSI RAID CONTROLLERS Network Card User Manual


 
D-3
Command Line Interface
All Controllers
The following terms are used in discussing the CLI:
Array, containerA logical disk created from available space
and made up of one or more partitions on one or more physical
disks.
Stripe, chunkContiguous set of data distributed across all the
disks in an array. A striped array distributes data evenly across
all members in equal-sized sections called stripes.
Free or available spaceSpace on an initialized disk that is not
in use.
PartitionContiguous area of a physical drive that makes up
some or all of an array.
Hotspare, failover diskA hard drive, an array member, that is
not used in day-to-day data storage, but is instead reserved for
use as a replacement for one of the other drives in the array in
the event of a failure.
Additional RAID terms are defined in the Glossary.