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Boot the sytem and repeatedly press CTRL + A keys together to enter the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility. This will load into the Adaptec Raid Controller’s Bios. | Boot the sytem and repeatedly press CTRL + A keys together to enter the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility. This will load into the Adaptec Raid Controller’s Bios. | ||
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Select “Disk Utilities” from the Main Menu. While inside Disk Utilities, check that both of your hard drives are showing properly as SATA 3.0Gb/s. Then escape from Disk Utilities back to the Main Menu. | Select “Disk Utilities” from the Main Menu. While inside Disk Utilities, check that both of your hard drives are showing properly as SATA 3.0Gb/s. Then escape from Disk Utilities back to the Main Menu. | ||
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- | A progress screen will display the percentage of completion of the Array. It takes a very long time for the screen to display 1%. It takes approximately 15 hours to build a 1TB Array. I suppose that means it will take approximately 30 hours to build a 2TB Array. | + | A progress screen will display the percentage of completion of the Array. |
- | Note. It is __**INCORRECTLY**__ reported that after the progress screen has reached at least 1% completion, and if you have installed Adaptec Raid Storage Manager within your operating system, then you may be able to boot to the operating system and allow the RAID controller to finish the “build” in the background while your OS is live or your server is up and running online, and also be able to monitor the progress of your mirror “build” from within Adaptec Storage Manager program. < | + | {{: |
- | Update: 07-21-2018 — __**Hard booting after the progress indicator shows at least 1% Build does NOT work.**__ | + | It takes a very long time for the screen to display 1% (approximately 15 minutes to build 1% of the Mirror). |
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+ | It takes approximately 15 hours to build a 1TB Array. I suppose this means it will take approximately 30 hours to build a 2TB Array. | ||
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+ | When finished at 100% build, there will be a message that appears: “Building the array is successfully completed.” | ||
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+ | You may now press ESC, ESC to exit the Array Configuration and type Y when prompted to exit and restart or reboot the system. | ||
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+ | Note. It is __**INCORRECTLY**__ reported that after the progress screen has reached at least 1% completion, and if you have installed Adaptec Raid Storage Manager within your operating system, then you may be able to boot to the operating system and allow the Adaptec RAID Storage Manager (rather than the controller card) to finish the “build” in the background while your OS is live or your server is up and running online, and also be able to monitor the progress of your mirror “build” from within Adaptec Storage Manager program. < | ||
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+ | Update: 07-21-2018 — __**Hard booting after the progress indicator shows at least 1% Build does NOT work.**__ | ||
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