Asus PIKE 1078 User Manual

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ASUS PIKE 1078

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2. Click Accept DG to move the drives to a proposed two-drive disk group

configuration in the Disk Groups window on the right.

If you need to undo the changes, click the Back button.

3. Hold <Ctrl> while selecting two more ready physical drives in the Physical

Drives window to create a second two-drive disk group.

4. Click Accept DG to move the drives

to a second two-drive disk group

configuration in the Disk Groups

window, as shown in the right figure.

If you need to undo the changes,

click the Back button.

5. When you have finished selecting

physical disks for the disk groups,

click Next.

The span definition screen appears.

You should add both disk groups

you’ve created in the previous step

to Span section. Select the disk

group in Array With Free Space

section and then click Add to Span.

6. When finish, click Next. The Virtual

Disk Definition screen appears, as shown in the right figure.

You use this screen to select the RAID level, strip size, read policy, and other

attributes for the new virtual disks.

7. Hold <Ctrl> while selecting 2 two-drive disk groups in the Configuration

window on the right.

The WebBIOS Configuration Utility displays the maximum available capacity

while creating the RAID 10 disk group. In version 1.03 of the utility, the

maximum size of the RAID 10 disk group is the sum total of the two RAID 1 disk

groups. In version 1.1, the maximum size is the size of the smaller disk group

multiplied by two.

8. Change the virtual disk options from the defaults listed on the screen as

needed.

Here are brief explanations of the virtual disk options:

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