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Table of Contents
G SPEED
STUDIO XL
with Thunderbolt™
Running Media Patrol on Your Physical Drives ................................... 63
Managing Disk Arrays ................................................................................ 64
Viewing a List of Disk Arrays ...................................................................... 64
Viewing Disk Array Information ...............................................................65
Creating a Disk Array Manually ................................................................65
Creating a Disk Array and Logical Drive With the Wizard ...............67
Choosing Automatic Configuration .......................................................68
Choosing Express Configuration .............................................................69
Choosing Advanced Configuration ........................................................ 71
Formatting Your Logical Drives ................................................................73
Changing Disk Array Settings ...................................................................73
Locating a Disk Array ...................................................................................74
Deleting a Disk Array ...................................................................................75
Preparing a Disk Array for Transport ......................................................76
Rebuilding a Disk Array ............................................................................... 76
Pausing and Resuming a Rebuild ............................................................ 78
Stopping a Rebuild ....................................................................................... 78
Managing Logical Drives ............................................................................78
Viewing a List of Logical Drives ................................................................ 79
Viewing Logical Drive Information .........................................................79
Viewing Logical Drive Statistics ...............................................................80
Changing Logical Drive Settings .............................................................81
Viewing Logical Drive Check Tables .......................................................82
Creating a Logical Drive Manually ..........................................................82
Formatting Your Logical Drives ................................................................84
Locating a Logical Drive ..............................................................................84
Deleting a Logical Drive .............................................................................. 85
Initializing a Logical Drive ..........................................................................85
Pausing and Resuming an Initialization ................................................ 86
Stopping an Initialization ........................................................................... 86
Redundancy Check on a Logical Drive .................................................. 87
Pausing and Resuming a Redundancy Check ....................................87
Stopping a Redundancy Check ................................................................87
Migrating a Logical Drive ...........................................................................88
Running PDM on a Logical Drive ............................................................. 89
Pausing and Resuming PDM ..................................................................... 89
Stopping PDM ................................................................................................89
Managing Spare Drives ............................................................................... 90
Viewing a List of Spare Drives ...................................................................90
Viewing Spare Drive Information ............................................................90
Creating a Spare Drive Manually .............................................................91
Changing Spare Drive Settings ................................................................92
Running Spare Check ..................................................................................93
Deleting a Spare Drive .................................................................................93
Running a Transition on a Spare Drive ..................................................93
Running a Transition ....................................................................................94
Pausing and Resuming a Transition ........................................................94
Stopping, Pausing or Resuming a Transition.......................................94
Formatting Logical Drives .......................................................................... 95
G-SPEED Studio XL Software with Default Settings .........................95
G-SPEED Studio Software Utility with Custom Settings..................96
Disk Utility ........................................................................................................ 97
Spare Drives ....................................................................................................98
Running a Transition ....................................................................................99
Maintenance for Your Drive
Replace a Failed Disk Drive ..................................................................... 101
Initialize Drive for Mac® ............................................................................ 103
Restore the Drive Icon .............................................................................. 106
Reformat with Partitions .......................................................................... 108
Appendix
RAID Levels Explained .............................................................................. 113
Support & Warranty
Technical Support ...................................................................................... 115
Limited Warranty ........................................................................................ 116
Limited Warranty ........................................................................................ 116
Copyright ...................................................................................................... 118