Areca ARC-8050T3U 6-Bay Thunder3 Desktop RAID Storage Array - Manual (Page 94)

WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION
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• Max Command Length
Max Command Length is used to set a "best" IO size for the
RAID storage.
• Auto Activate Incomplete Raid
When some of the disk drives are removed in power off state
or boot up stage, the RAID set state will change to “Incom-
plete State”. But if a user wants to automatically continue to
work while the RAID storage is powered on, the user can set
the “Auto Activate Incomplete Raid” option to enable. The
RAID state will change to “Degraded Mode” while it powers
on.
• Disk Write Cache Mode
User can set the “Disk Write Cache Mode” to Auto, Enabled,
or Disabled. “Enabled” increases speed, “Disabled” increases
reliability.
• Write Same For Initialization
Drives that support the Write Same feature (SCT) can write to
multiple drive sectors at once, improving initialization time. To
take advantage of this feature, all the drives in the unit must
support “Write Same” command. User can set the “SAS And
SATA”, “SAS Only”, “SATA Only or “Disabled” for the controller
initialization.
• Hot Plugged Disk For Rebuilding
It defines if the RAID array volume should start rebuilding or
not when detects a disk is inserted/re-inserted during online.
The options are: “Blank Disk Only”, “Always”, and “Disable”.
The default is “Blank Disk Only”.
“Blank Disk Only” – it will trigger the rebuilding if and only if
the inserted disk has not been in the RAID array before, which
has no RAID signature on it. So when a previously removed
disk is self re-inserted, it won’t trigger the degraded RAID ar-
ray to rebuild, and so that the administrator has a chance to
identify this miss-behaving disk and replace it.
“Always” – it is what it was before. Whenever a disk is insert-
ed/re-inserted whether new or previously existed, it always