• You have backed up any/all critical data off of the BlackArmor NAS Server.
• All previous unneeded Volumes have been deleted.
• You are currently logged into the BlackArmor Manager with admin privileges.

Procedure(s):

1. Mouseover Storage and click Volumes. The Volumes page opens.
2. Click the Add icon. The Volume Add Disk Selection page opens. Select the drives (HDDs) you wish to include in the volume.
3. Click Next. The Volume Add RAID Type page opens. Click on the RAID 1 radio button.
4. Click Next. Enter the following information:
   1. Volume Name
   2. Volume Description
   3. Check whether to Encrypt the volume.
   4. Enter a Volume Size or check the Max box to use the entire space of the selected drives.
5. Click Next. The Volume Add Summary page opens, showing you the settings for the volume.
6. Click Finish. Volume creation starts processing. When finished, the volume prepares. This may take awhile depending on the size of the volume. When finished, the message "RAID configuration changed successfully…" disappears, the volume is ready for use.

Seagate Video Tutorial – Creating a RAID 1 Volume

• You have backed up any/all critical data off of the BlackArmor NAS Server.
• All previous unneeded volumes have been deleted.
• You are currently logged into the BlackArmor Manager with admin privileges.

Procedure:

1. Mouseover Storage and click Volumes. The Volumes page opens.
2. Click the Add icon. The Volume Add Disk Selection page opens. Select the drives (HDDs) you wish to include in the volume.
3. Click Next. The Volume Add RAID Type page opens. Click on the RAID 10 radio button.
4. Click Next. Enter the following information:
   1. Volume Name
   2. Volume Description
   3. Check whether to Encrypt the volume.
   4. Enter a Volume Size or check the Max box to use the entire space of the selected drives.
5. Click Next. The Volume Add Summary page opens showing you the settings for the volume.
6. Click Finish. Volume creation starts processing. When finished, the volume prepares. This may take awhile depending on the size of the volume. When finished, the message "RAID configuration changed successfully…" disappears, the volume is ready for use.

Seagate Video Tutorial – Creating a RAID 10 Volume

• You have backed up any/all critical data off of the BlackArmor NAS Server.
• All previous unneeded volumes have been deleted.
• You are currently logged into the BlackArmor Manager with admin privileges.

Procedure(s):

1. Mouseover Storage and click Volumes. The Volumes page opens.
2. Click the Add icon. The Volume Add Disk Selection page opens. Select the drives (HDDs) you wish to include in the volume.
3. Click Next. The Volume Add RAID Type page opens. Click on the RAID 5 radio button.
4. Click Next. Enter the following information:
   1. Volume Name
   2. Volume Description
   3. Check whether to Encrypt the volume.
   4. Enter a Volume Size or check the Max box to use the entire space of the selected drives.
5. Click Next. The Volume Add Summary page opens, showing you the settings for the volume.
6. Click Finish. Volume creation starts processing. When finished, the volume prepares. This may take awhile depending on the size of the volume. When finished, the message "RAID configuration changed successfully…" disappears, the volume is ready for use.

Seagate Video Tutorial – Creating a RAID 5 Volume

• You have backed up any/all critical data off of the BlackArmor NAS Server.
• All previous unneeded volumes have been deleted.
• You are currently logged into the BlackArmor Manager with admin privileges.

Procedure(s):

1. Mouseover Storage and click Volumes. The Volumes page opens.
2. Click the Add icon. The Volume Add Disk Selection page opens. Select the drives (HDDs) you wish to include in the volume.
3. Click Next. The Volume Add RAID Type page opens. Click on the RAID 0 radio button.
4. Click Next. Enter the following information:
   1. Volume Name
   2. Volume Description
   3. Check whether to Encrypt the volume
   4. Enter a Volume Size or check the Max box to use the entire space of the selected drives.
5. Click Next. The Volume Add Summary page opens, showing you the settings for the volume.
6. Click Finish. Volume creation starts processing. When finished, the volume prepares. This may take awhile depending on the size of the volume. When finished, the message "RAID configuration changed successfully…" disappears, and the volume is ready for use.

Seagate Video Tutorial – Creating a RAID 0 Volume

Hard drives for RAID. Mix hard drives in a RAID array?

Most SCSI RAID controllers will accept different kinds of hard drives. The hard drives should match in capacity points and rotational (RPM) speed. At best, all drives in an array will be identical–at the same firmware revision level.

RAID can be used with any size hard drive. The smallest capacity drive will determine the largest logical volume size for all drives in the array.
Whenever possible select drives from an approved vendor drive compatibility list. This ensures that the hard drive is tested, and should function reliably with your SCSI RAID controller. Untested configurations ’should work’ too. But for best results, select only tested and compatible drives for your SCSI RAID controller. Most SCSI controller vendors publish a hard drive compatibility matrix on their Web site.
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1. The WD icon is also the way that you access the drive’s status, or as in this case, the drive’s RAID status. When the RAID is healthy, you will see the blue WD icon. Clicking on the WD icon opens a short menu that leads to launching the RAID Manager. From there, you can reconfigure the RAID mode of the drive.

   

2. If something happens to the RAID status of the drive, a warning will be issued.

   

For RAID 1 (Mirrored)

1. The WD logo will flash to dark blue, if it’s a degraded RAID 1.

   

2. When you click on the WD icon, a menu opens up showing the WD My Book RAID USB. When you rollover it, another menu pops up giving the status of the drive. In this case, it shows RAID Status: Degraded. Now click on Launch WD RAID Manager.

   

3. When you click on Launch WD RAID Manager, a Drive Configurations window opens up showing what has happen. In this case, a drive has failed and needs to be replaced.

   

4. You will notice in Drive Configurations that you still show a capacity. This is because the drive was part of a RAID 1 configuration, and the data is still available. Once the drive is replaced the data will be rewritten to the new drive.

   

For RAID 0 (Striped)

1. Again, a warning would be issued, if the drive’s RAID status was having problems. In this case, the flashing red means that you are having a problem with your RAID 0 configuration being degraded.

   

2. This time, you would see a red bullet in front of WD My Book RAID USB instead of a yellow bullet, as is found when a RAID 1 Drive has degraded. And in the menu on the left, you would also see RAID Status: Config Problem.

   

3. Clicking on Launch WD RAID Manager opens the Drive Configurations window. This time, however, you would see a 0 under Capacity. That’s because when one of the drives fails while in RAID 0 mode, as it did in this case, you immediately lose all the data. You would need to go to a data recovery company to possibly regain the lost data, if you didn’t have the data saved on another drive.