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Chapter 5 Configuring ADAC Ultra2 S466
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Configuring Arrays
Organize the physical disk drives in arrays after the drives
are connected to ADAC Ultra2 S466, formatted, and
initialized. Each array can consist of one to eight physical
disk drives.
ADAC Ultra2 S466 supports up to eight arrays. The
number of drives in a array determines the RAID levels
that can be supported.
Arranging Arrays You must arrange the arrays to provide additional
organization for the drive array. You must arrange arrays
so that you can create system drives that can function as
boot devices.
You can sequentially arrange arrays with an identical
number of drives so that the drives in the group are
spanned. Spanned drives can be treated as one large drive.
Data can be striped across multiple arrays as one logical
drive.
You can create spanned drives by using the ADAC BIOS
Setup utility or the ADAC Configuration Manager.
Creating Hot Spares Any drive that is present, formatted, and initialized
but is not included in a array or logical drive is
automatically designated as a hot spare.
You can also designate drives as hot spares via ADAC
BIOS Setup, the ADAC Configuration Manager, or Power
Console Plus.
Creating Logical Drives Logical drives are arrays or spanned arrays that
are presented to the operating system. You must create one
or more logical drives.
The logical drive capacity can include all or any portion of
a array. The logical drive capacity can also be larger than
an array by using spanning. ADAC Ultra2 S466 supports
up to 8 logical drives.