Areca ARC-8050T3U 6-Bay Thunder3 Desktop RAID Storage Array - Manual (Page 71)

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WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION
-No
When this option is enabled, it keeps the volume size with
max. 2TB limitation. For any hard disk drives working in the
4K native mode in the Raid set, the volume set directly sets
and exposes 4KB sector size to the operating system.
-64bit LBA
This option uses 16 bytes CDB instead of 10 bytes. The maxi-
mum volume capacity is up to 512TB. For any hard disk drives
working in the 4K native mode in the Raid set, the volume
set directly sets and exposes 4KB sector size to the operating
system. This option works on different OS which supports 16
bytes CDB.
-Use 4K Block
This option uses 16 bytes CDB and changes the sector size
from default 512 bytes to 4k bytes. Windows XP only supports
maximum volume capacity is up to 16TB.
• Initialization Mode
This option is used to define “Background Initialization”, “Fore -
ground Initialization” or “No Init (To Rescue Volume)”. When
“Background Initialization”, the initialization proceeds as a
background task, the volume set is fully accessible for system
reads and writes. The operating system can instantly access to
the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting
the initialization complete. When “Foreground Initialization”, the
initialization proceeds must be completed before the volume set
ready for system accesses. There is no initialization happened
when you select “No Init” option. “No Init“ is for customer to
rescue volume without losing data in the disk.
• Stripe Size
This parameter sets the size of the stripe written to each disk
in a RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 6, 50 or 60 logical drive. You can set the
stripe size to 4 KB, 8 KB, 16 KB, 32 KB, 64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB,
512KB or 1M. A larger stripe size produces better read per -
formance, especially if your computer does mostly sequential
reads. However, if you are sure that your computer does ran-
dom reads more often, select a smaller stripe size.