Asus RS161-E4/PA2 - Manual (Page 111)

ASUS RS161-E4/PA2 6-5
3. Press <TAB> to move to the Free Disks section.
Highlight the hard disk drives that you want to add in the RAID set, then
press the right arrow key to select. The selected hard disk drives appear
in the Array Disks section. Repeat the process until all desired hard disk
drives are added.
6.2.3 Creating a RAID Volume
To create a RAID 0 set:
1. From the Define a New Array menu, select RAID
Mode , then press <Enter>. A pop-up menu
appears.
Use the up or down arrow keys to select a RAID
mode , then press <Enter>. You can select either
Mirroring, Striping, Spanning, Stripe Mirroring, or RAID 5.
Mirroring
Striping
Stripe Mirroring
Spanning
RAID 5
2. Press <TAB> to select the Striping Block option, then
press <Enter>. The following submenu appears:
The available stripe size values range from 4KB to 128KB. The default stripe
size is optimal (64KB). You must choose the stripe size value based on the
projected drive usage. For low disk usage, select 4 KB/16 KB. For typical
disk usage, select 64 KB. Select 128KB for performance disk usage.
4K
8K ↑
16K
32K
64K
128K
Optim ↓
For server systems, we recommend using a lower array block size. For
multimedia computer systems used mainly for audio and video editing, we
recommend a higher array block size for optimum performance.
• The RAID mode is set to Mirroring by default.
• Not all RAID modes are supported on all platforms. (This server only
has two HDDs that only supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 mode.)