HighPoint RocketRAID 2210 User Manual
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RocketRAID 2210 Driver and Software Installation
2.
Click the Create button on the toolbar or select the “Create” command from the
“Operation” menu. The array creation wizard will appear.
3.
Select the desired RAID level from the drop-down list.
4.
Enter a name for the array using the keyboard (this is optional), and click the
Next button.
5.
If you are creating a redundant array (RAID 1, 5, 10), select an initialization
option. If you are creating a RAID 0 or JBOD (volume), skip to step 6:
For RAID 1 and RAID 10 arrays, the default initialization method is “No
initialization”.
For RAID 5 arrays, the default initialization method is “Foreground”.
If you are creating RAID 5, you will be asked to specify a cache policy:
Write-back - when the write-back setting is selected, all write requests sent to
the array are cached. This will result in higher performance, but data loss may
occur in case of a power failure.
Write-through - when the write-through setting is selected, all write requests
be completed from the cache if appropriate.
6.
Select which disks are to be used to create the array. Highlight the desired disk
from the left-side of the interface (available disks), then click on the
button to
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the array are passed directly to the disks. However, subsequent reads may still