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Creating a RAID Volume
To create a RAID volume:
1. From the NVIDIA
®
then press <Enter>. The following submenu appears.
Use the up or down arrow keys to select a
RAID mode then press <Enter>.
Mirroring
Striping
Stripe Mirroring
Spanning
multimedia computer systems used mainly for audio and video editing, we
2. Press <TAB> select the Striping
Block then press <Enter>. The
following submenu appears:
If you selected Striping or Stripe Mirroring, use the up or down arrow keys to
values range from 8 KB to 128 KB. The default selection is 128 KB. The strip
value should be chosen based on the planned drive usage.
• 8 /16 KB - low disk usage
• 64 KB - typical disk usage
• 128 KB - performance disk usage
3.` Press <TAB> to select the Free Disks area. Use the left or right arrow keys to
assign the array disks.
4. Press <F7> to create RAID set. The following message box appears.
Clear disk data?
[Y] YES [N] NO
5. Press <Y> to clear the selected disks or <N> to proceed without clearing the
disks. The following screen appears.
8K
16K
32K
64K
128K
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