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Software RAID
If your system is pre-configured with software RAID 5, the system performs a RAID synchronization to
optimize the array. The process runs in the background and may affect your overall system performance
until it completes. If the system is powered off before the process completes, RAID synchronization will
begin again when the system is powered up and continue until it completes.
Table 3-1 provides information about the supported RAID configurations.
Table 3-1. Software RAID Configurations
RAID Configuration
RAID 1
RAID 5
Disk Management
Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 x64 Edition features the Disk Management utility, which enables
you to configure your storage devices and the logical volumes contained in your system. The Disk
Management utility displays storage configuration in list and graphical views. The list view shows a list
of all the physical devices and their properties. The graphical view shows your storage as logical volumes.
Each view provides menus of commands for configuring and managing your system storage.
This section describes how to use the Windows Disk Management tool to manage basic and
dynamic volumes.
Initializing a Disk
When you create a virtual disk and perform a rescan in a hardware RAID or external storage configuration
or when a new disk is discovered on a system with a software RAID configuration, the disk appears with
the statement Disk Type of Unsigned Disk. An unsigned disk cannot be used until it is initialized.
To initialize a disk, right-click the unsigned disk. A menu displays showing the Initialize Disk command.
(The Initialize Disk command appears only if a disk does not include a signature.) Select this command
to write a signature on the disk.
After a signature is written on a disk, the disk displays as a Basic Disk. You can create partitions on
the basic disk, or you can upgrade the disk from basic to dynamic and create volumes on the disk.
NOTICE:
In hardware RAID configurations, the operating system disk must remain a basic disk. However, you can
upgrade all data disks to dynamic during creation by using the Windows Disk Management utility.
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RAID and Disk Management
Configuration
Two system hard drives
8 GB operating system partition
Four hard drives
8 GB operating system partition
Unpartitioned Space
40 MB
Varies depending on drive capacity