Thecus 1U4500R Leaflet

RAID 6 

Two independent parity computations must be used in order to 

provide protection against double disk failure. Two different 
algorithms are employed to achieve this purpose. RAID 6 

requires a minimum of 4 disks. RAID 6 can sustain two failed 

disks. 

RAID 10 

RAID 10 has high reliability and high performance. RAID 10 is 

implemented as a striped array whose segments are RAID 1 

arrays. It has the fault tolerance of RAID 1 and the performance 
of RAID 0. RAID 10 requires 4 disks. RAID 10 can sustain two 

failed disks. 

If the administrator improperly removes a hard disk that should not be 
removed when RAID status is Degraded, all data will be lost. 

 

Using RAID Settings, you can select stripe size, choose which disks are RAID 
disks or the Spare Disk, as well as enter a name for each disk. 

 

Item Description 
RAID 

Check the boxes of the hard drives you wish to add to the 

storage volume. 

Master RAID 

Check a box to designate this as the Master RAID volume. See 

the 

 below for more information. 

Disk No. 

Number assigned to the installed hard disks. 

Capacity (MB) 

Capacity of the installed hard disks. 

Model 

Model number of the installed hard disks. 

Status 

Status of the installed hard disks. 

Member 

If this is checked, current hard disk is a part of a RAID volume. 

Spare 

If this is checked, current hard disk is designated as a spare for 

a RAID volume. 

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. 

Used Percentage 

The percentage of the RAID volume that will be used to store 

data. 

Apply 

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

storage volume. 

Remove 

Click to remove the RAID volume. All user data, iSCSI, and 
Target USB data will be removed. 

Back 

Press this button to exit without saving changes. 

Expand 

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

storage volume. 

Migration 

Press this button to migrate RAID level. 

To create a RAID volume, follow the steps below: 

 

1.  On the RAID List screen, click New. 

 
2.  On the RAID Configuration screen, set the RAID storage space as JBOD, 

RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10 — see 

 for a detailed description of each. 

 

3.  Specify a RAID ID.  

 

 

 
 

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