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At the main 3BM screen, select the drives to be included by highlighting each one and pressing Enter or Space to select it.
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Tip: If you want to use all available drives, press Alt-A to select them all.
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Tip: You can also press Alt-C to choose Create Unit.
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On the 3ware Disk Array screen, make sure that the proper drives are listed.
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Tab to the RAID Configuration field and press Enter to display a list of available configurations for the number of drives you selected.
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Tab to the field Stripe Size and select the desired striping size (16, 64, or 256 KB).
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(Optional) Tab through the policy fields and make any appropriate changes to the default settings for:
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(Optional) Tab to the field Boot Volume Size, press Enter and type the size for the boot volume (volume 0) in gigabytes; then press Enter again to set the size.
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If the volume summary screen appears, review the information and press any key to continue.
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Note: The unit is not actually created and no data is overwritten until you have finished making all your changes and press F8.
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When you are finished making configuration changes, press F8 to save the changes and exit 3BM.
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Type Y to continue, delete any existing data on the drives, and create the unit.
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Note: For RAID 5 and RAID 6 units with 5 or more disks, and RAID 50 units with a subunit of 5 or more disks, initialization of the unit begins immediately. You can postpone initialization if you want to begin using the units right away, however initialization from the BIOS is faster than it is under the operating system, so it will be a longer period of time until the unit has optimal performance. For more information, see About Initialization.
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