Running Consistency Checks

The Consistency Check operation verifies the correctness of the data in volumes that use RAID levels 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60, configurations. For example, in a system with parity, checking consistency means calculating the data on one drive and comparing the results to the contents of the parity drive. You should periodically run a consistency check on fault-tolerant volumes.

Because RAID 0 does not provide data redundancy, you cannot run a consistency check on RAID 0 volumes.

To run a consistency check, you must first set the Consistency Check properties, then you can either schedule a consistency check to run at a defined interval chosen by you or you can start the Consistency Check operation immediately.