Creating an array using UEFI System Utilities

When you create an array, you can select drives, specify RAID level, and configure array settings, including strip size and logical drive size.

Procedure

From the UEFI System Utilities screen, select System Configuration ><controller name> > Array Configuration > Create Array.
In the Create Array screen, select each drive that you want to include in the array and click Proceed to next Form.
NOTE:
SAS drives are not supported on the NVM Express SmartRAID SW RAID Support.
In the Set RAID Level screen, select the RAID Level from the drop-down menu and click Proceed to next Form.

In the Set Logical Drive Configuration screen, specify the configuration settings or use the default selection.

Setting	Description
Logical Drive Label	Use the default selection for the drive label or enter a new label. The characters in the label can be alphanumeric or spaces.
Strip Size/Full Stripe Size	Strip size is the amount of data that is stored on each physical drive in the array. The full stripe size is the amount of data that the controller can read or write simultaneously on all the drives in the array. For RAID levels that support fault tolerance through parity, the parity information is calculated one full strip size at a time. For hardware RAID, you can specify from 16KiB up to 1024KiB, depending on the number of disks and RAID level. The default value is all available space. For SmartRAID NVM Express SmartRAID SW RAID Support, the minimum size is 16KiB and the maximum size is up to 256KiB, depending on RAID level and device type.
Size	Values in decimal; minimum RAID size is 16 MiB.
Unit Size	Logical drive unit size (MiB/GiB/TiB).
Acceleration Method	Logical drive acceleration method (controller cache or none).