Thecus Silver Data Storage 4 bays N4100S Fascicule

Thecus N4100 IP Storage Appliance 

 

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From the Storage menu, choose the RAID item, and the RAID Information screen appears. The information 

displayed includes total memory capacity, RAID status, and the current RAID setting. To configure your 

RAID settings, press the Config button and the RAID Configuration screen appears. 

Shows the type of RAID setting for the system. 

Shows total capacity after the RAID configuration. 

Indicates status of the RAID, either Healthy or Failed. 

Displays percentage of used RAID capacity. 

Shows size of disk stripe. 

Indicates time remaining until the RAID is finished building. 

In the RAID Information screen, press “Config” to enter the RAID Configuration screen.  In addition to RAID 

disk information and status, this screen lets you make RAID configuration settings. See Appendix C for basic 

information on RAID. 

You can set the storage volume as either None, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1 or RAID 5. RAID configuration is 

usually required only when you first set up the device. A brief description of each RAID setting follows: 

There is no existing storage volume. 

The storage volume is a single HDD with no RAID support. A minimum of 2 HDD is required. 

Provides data striping but no redundancy. Improves performance but not data safety. At least 2 

HDD are required. 

Offers disk mirroring. Provides twice the read rate of single disks, but same write rate. 

Supports 2 HDD. 

Data striping and stripe error correction information provided. Excellent performance and good 

fault tolerance.