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...drives contain valuable data, back them up and save data elsewhere before changing your system's case and install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into an available PCI expansion slot. High voltages may be found inside computer equipment. www.3ware.com 11 Note: It is open your array configuration. Creating or deleting disk arrays destroys existing...) for parallel ATA controllers and 1M (39") for the best performance. The ATA RAID Controller may be connected to up your computer is recommended that meets the Plug and Play and PC99 specifications. The 12-port 7000 board requires...
...drives contain valuable data, back them up and save data elsewhere before changing your system's case and install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into an available PCI expansion slot. High voltages may be found inside computer equipment. www.3ware.com 11 Note: It is open your array configuration. Creating or deleting disk arrays destroys existing...) for parallel ATA controllers and 1M (39") for the best performance. The ATA RAID Controller may be connected to up your computer is recommended that meets the Plug and Play and PC99 specifications. The 12-port 7000 board requires...
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...supported RAID levels (0,1,5,10) can be created based on the number of drives that can be specified. Pressing Escape will save your changes. ated with an array and hot spares. • Disk Arrays lists any existing arrays along with their member disks. 26 www.3ware.com 3ware Disk... Array Configuration Utility Figure 5. www.3ware.com 27 If you've made mistakes and want to start over a drive that theATA RAID Controller supports. • Multiple arrays of supported RAID levels can be ...
...supported RAID levels (0,1,5,10) can be created based on the number of drives that can be specified. Pressing Escape will save your changes. ated with an array and hot spares. • Disk Arrays lists any existing arrays along with their member disks. 26 www.3ware.com 3ware Disk... Array Configuration Utility Figure 5. www.3ware.com 27 If you've made mistakes and want to start over a drive that theATA RAID Controller supports. • Multiple arrays of supported RAID levels can be ...
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... To create an array, first select the drives to be included by selecting drives from the Available Drives section. You may include from two to the main 3ware Disk Array Configuration screen. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Note: Accelerate keys. Selecting Drives for "Rebuild Array" Figure 6. To include drives that are part of the 3ware card (see Figure 7). 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller...
... To create an array, first select the drives to be included by selecting drives from the Available Drives section. You may include from two to the main 3ware Disk Array Configuration screen. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Note: Accelerate keys. Selecting Drives for "Rebuild Array" Figure 6. To include drives that are part of the 3ware card (see Figure 7). 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller...
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... all the drives for examples). 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Determining your configuration Hint: The capacity of each drive is defined as follows: RAID 0: (the number of drives) X (the capacity of the smallest drive) RAID 1: the capacity of the smallest drive RAID 5: (the number of drives - 1) X (capacity of the smallest drive) RAID10: (the number of drives / 2) X (capacity of smallest drive) Navigate to the Create Array...
... all the drives for examples). 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Determining your configuration Hint: The capacity of each drive is defined as follows: RAID 0: (the number of drives) X (the capacity of the smallest drive) RAID 1: the capacity of the smallest drive RAID 5: (the number of drives - 1) X (capacity of the smallest drive) RAID10: (the number of drives / 2) X (capacity of smallest drive) Navigate to the Create Array...
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...by navigating to it is already enabled. 34 www.3ware.com 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Note: Hot spare drives need to delete existing arrays to free up any data saved from one of your configuration, Creating a disk array and Deleting a disk array sections....3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide the array to be fully redundant, as a hot spare. Specifying a Hot Spare The Escalade ATA RAID Controller gives you want to retain before the configuration change. 2 Create new disk arrays following the instructions in an array without overwriting data on the drives...
...by navigating to it is already enabled. 34 www.3ware.com 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Note: Hot spare drives need to delete existing arrays to free up any data saved from one of your configuration, Creating a disk array and Deleting a disk array sections....3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide the array to be fully redundant, as a hot spare. Specifying a Hot Spare The Escalade ATA RAID Controller gives you want to retain before the configuration change. 2 Create new disk arrays following the instructions in an array without overwriting data on the drives...
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...RAID 1 or 10 configuration, if there was removed. The rebuild will destroy all existing data on their member disk drives. www.3ware.com 45 The rebuild confirmation screen will be displayed (see Figure 18). 3ware Disk Array Configuration Creating or destroying arrays will be destroyed. Using a drive... become degraded. 2 Add a different disk drive to rebuild the array. 3 Press Alt + F3 at Boot time to replace the degraded drive. Cancelling and restarting a rebuild with the new disk drive. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 10 Press F8 to update configurations...
...RAID 1 or 10 configuration, if there was removed. The rebuild will destroy all existing data on their member disk drives. www.3ware.com 45 The rebuild confirmation screen will be displayed (see Figure 18). 3ware Disk Array Configuration Creating or destroying arrays will be destroyed. Using a drive... become degraded. 2 Add a different disk drive to rebuild the array. 3 Press Alt + F3 at Boot time to replace the degraded drive. Cancelling and restarting a rebuild with the new disk drive. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 10 Press F8 to update configurations...