Creating a striped pool, Creating a striped pool 71 – SimpleTech SimpleShare User Manual
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Managing SimpleShare
Disk Pool
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The main reason for creating a striped pool is to increase performance. Two or more disks are required to create a striped pool.
Striped pools alternate (or interleave) the data accessed in the pool. They do not provide for multiple copies of data stored in a
pool and do not provide for protection from loss of data should a drive fail. In fact should a single drive that is part of a striped
pool fail all data in the pool is lost even though the remaining disk(s) are functional.
1
On the Disk Management menu, click Create New
Pool.
2
In New Pool Name, enter a descriptive name for the
pool.
3
Select Striping.
4
If three disks are connected to SimpleShare, in Number
of Stripes enter the number of disks to be included in
the striped pool.
At least two disks are required to create a striped pool. If
three disks are connected to SimpleShare, the Number of
Stripes field allows you to specify how many disks to include
in the striped pool.