Product manual

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XL
G SPEED
STUDIO XL
with Thunderbolt™
p. 83
1. One of the following actions:
 •Clickthe Logical Drive icon.
 •FromtheStoragemenu,chooseLogical Drive.
2. Click the Create Logical Drive button.
3. Click the radio button of the disk array you want to use, then click the Next button.
4. Accept the defaults or make changes from the following:
 •Optional.EnteranaliasintheAlias field with a maximum of 32 characters (letters,
numbers and spaces).
 •ChooseaRAID level. The choice of RAID levels will depend in part on the number of
physical drives in the disk array.
 •IntheCapacityeld,acceptthedefaultmaximumcapacityorenteralessercapacityinMB,
GB or TB. Any remaining capacity will be available for an additional logical drive.
 •ChooseaStripesize:64KB,128KB,256KB,512KBand1MBareavailable.
 •ChooseaSectorsize:512KB,1KB,2KBand4KBareavailable.
 •ChooseaRead(cache)Policy:ReadCache,ReadAheadandNoCacheareavailable.
 •ChooseaWrite(cache)Policy:WriteBackandWriteThrough(Thru)areavailable.
The Write Cache is always set to WriteThru when the Read Cache is set to NoCache.
 •IfyouwanttheG-SPEEDStudioSoftwareUtilitytoformatyourlogicaldrives,leavethe
Format box checked. See Formatting Logical Drives.
5. Click the Add button. The new logical drive will appear on the list at the right. If any capacity
remains, you can create an additional logical drive. G-SPEED Studio XL supports up to 32 logical drives.
6. When finished, click the Submit button. The new logical drive(s) will appear in the logical drive list.
The new Volume will appear on the desktop.