Product manual
Conguring G-SPEED Studio XL
G SPEED
STUDIO
XL
with Thunderbolt™
p. 88
Migrating a Logical Drive
Migration means one or both of the following:
• Changing the RAID level of a logical drive
• Expanding the storage capacity of a logical drive
Before you begin a migration, examine your current disk array to determine whether:
• The physical drives in your array can support the target RAID level
• There is sufficient capacity to accommodate the target logical drive size
If you need to add physical drives to your array, be sure there are unassigned physical drives installed
in your RAID system before you begin migration. See RAID Levels and RAID Level Migration.
To migrate a logical drive:
1. Click on the Background Activities icon. The list of background activities will appear.
2. Mouse-over Migrate, then click the Start button.
3. In the Select Disk Array drop-down menu, choose the source disk array.
4. In the Select Physical Drives diagram, click the drives you wish to add to your array. The ID
numbers of the chosen drives will appear in the field below the diagram.
5. Click the Next button.
6. Check the box next to the logical drive you want to modify.
7. From the drop-down menu, choose a target RAID level. The choice of RAID levels will depend in
part on the number of physical drives in the disk array. See the note below.
8. In the Capacity field, either accept the current capacity or check the Expand Capacity box and
enter a greater capacity in MB, GB or TB. If any capacity remains, you can create an additional
logical drive.
9. Click the Next button. The logical drive ID numbers, with their original and target RAID levels
and capacities, are shown.
10. To accept the proposed target values, click the Conrm button.