User Manual

Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility
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• Write Policy – WriteThrough (safer) or WriteBack (faster). See
page 108
5. Press the down arrow key to move to Disk Assignments. Press the spacebar
to toggle between N and Y for each available drive. Y means this physical
drive will be assigned to the logical drive.
Assign the appropriate number of physical drives to your logical drive.
6. Press Ctrl-Y to save your logical drive configuration.
The LD name prompt appears.
7. Press Ctrl-Y to open a name field.
If you press any key other than Ctrl-Y, a default name is used and the
process goes to the next step.
8. Type a name for the logical drive and press Enter.
If you leave the field blank and press Enter, a default name is used.
If you chose Fast or Full Initialization in step 4, the Fast Init warning appears.
9. Press Ctrl-Y to accept Initialization.
If you press any key other than Ctrl-Y, the logical drive creation is cancelled.
The Modify Array Capacity option appears.
Taking less than the full array capacity enables you to create a second
logical drive using the same disk drives.
10. Press Ctrl-Y to open the capacity field.