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RAIDXpert User Manual Chapter 6: Technology Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95 Introduction to RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95 RAID 0 – Stripe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96 RAID 1 – Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97 RAID 5 – Block Striping with Distributed Parity . . . . . . . . . . . . .98 RAID 10 – Mirror/Stripe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99 RAID Ready – Single Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 JBOD – Concatenation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 Choosing a RAID Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 RAID 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 RAID 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 RAID 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 RAID 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 RAID Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 JBOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 Choosing Stripe Block Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105 Gigabyte Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105 Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105 Hot Spare Drive(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106 Partition and Format the Logical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106 Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106 Ranges of Logical Drive Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108 Media Patrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109 Appendix A: Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111 Appendix B: Partition and Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113 vi
Chapter 1: Introduction • RAIDXpert Components (page 2) • About This Manual (page 3) The AMD RAIDXpert software offers local and remote management and monitoring of all AMD SB6xx/SB7xx SATA logical drives that exist anywhere on a network. Figure 1. RAIDXpert in a browser window Its browser-based GUI provides email notification of all major events or alarms, memory cache management, drive event logging, logical drive maintenance, rebuild, and access to all components in the RAID configuration (server, controller, logical drives, and physical drives). RAIDXpert is designed to work with AMD SB6xx/SB7xx SATA RAID controllers. Other brands of RAID controllers are not supported. 1
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