Thecus Black Data Storage 4 bays N4100B Leaflet

Product codes

N4100B

Thecus N4100 IP Storage Appliance

Disk Settings

With the Disk settings you can select stripe size and choose which disks are RAID disks or the Spare Disk

as well as enter a name for each disk.

Stripe size

This sets the stripe size to maximize performance of sequential files in a storage volume.

Keep the 64K setting unless you require a special file storage layout in the storage volume.

A larger stripe size is better for large files.

RAID

Check the boxes of the HDDs you wish to add to the storage volume.

Spare Disk

Check a box to designate the replacement HDD for the storage volume. This becomes the

backup for any damaged HDD.

Add Spare

Press this button to add a new Spare disk.

Create RAID

Press this button to configure a file system and create the RAID storage volume.

Remove RAID Press this button to nullify the RAID storage volume.

How to Create a RAID

1. In the RAID Configuration screen, Set the RAID storage space as JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1 or RAID

5—see Appendix C for details.

Note: If security is your primary concern, for 2 disks, choose RAID 1; for 4 disks, choose RAID 5. If capacity

is your primary concern, choose JBOD or RAID 0.

2. Check the hard disks you wish to create a RAID on. Specify Stripe size—64K is a normal setting.

3. Press

Create to build the RAID storage volume.

Note: Building a RAID storage space may take time, depending on the size of hard drives and RAID mode.

WARNING: Creating RAID destroys all data in the current RAID, and the data is unrecoverable.