Adaptec SATA AND SCSI RAID CONTROLLERS User Manual
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D-3
Command Line Interface
All Controllers
The following terms are used in discussing the CLI:
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Array, container
—A logical disk created from available space
and made up of one or more partitions on one or more physical
disks.
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Stripe, chunk
—Contiguous set of data distributed across all the
disks in an array. A striped array distributes data evenly across
all members in equal-sized sections called stripes.
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Free or available space
—Space on an initialized disk that is not
in use.
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Partition
—Contiguous area of a physical drive that makes up
some or all of an array.
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Hotspare, failover disk
—A hard drive, an array member, that is
not used in day-to-day data storage, but is instead reserved for
use as a replacement for one of the other drives in the array in
the event of a failure.
Additional RAID terms are defined in the
.