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CHAPTER 4Installing and Using the NVIDIA MediaShield SoftwareCreate an ArrayThis option is available only if there are free disks that are RAID‐enabled.Click Create array to start the Create Array Wizard and then follow the instructions.You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the Wizard with stepby‐stepinstructions.Delete an ArrayThis option is available only if RAID arrays have been created.Click Delete array to start the Delete Array Wizard and then follow instructions.You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the Wizard with stepby‐stepinstructions.Rebuild an ArrayAbout RebuildingRebuilding is the process of restoring data to a hard drive from other drives in the array.For example, if you have a three disk RAID 5 array and one of the drives fails, you willneed to replace the failed drive with a new one, and rebuild the array to re‐generate thelost data on the newly added drive.Rebuilding applies only to fault‐tolerant arrays such as RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or RAID 5Arrays 1 .InstructionsClick Rebuild array to start the Rebuild Create Array Wizard and then follow theinstructions.You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the Wizard with stepby‐stepinstructions.The rebuilding process takes some time to complete, and occurs in the background so asnot to affect the performance of the system.1. See Table 1.1, “Supported nForce Platforms and RAID Arrays” on page 2 for a matrix of supportedRAID levels.NVIDIA Corporation 35