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8. RAID sets can be created in both BIOS and in the SATARAID5 GUI. If you have excess capacity left on your hard drives

after creating a RAID set in the BIOS, you can later go to the SATARAID5 GUI to create additional logical drives that

fully utilize the capacity on all your hard drives.

5.2 Creating Spare Drive

If there is a RAID 1 set, spare driver can be created. The spare drive can be allocated to the RAID 1 set in the event of a

failure of one of the drives in the RAID 1 set.

1. To create a spare drive for RAID 1 set, Select “Create RAID set”

2. Select “Spare Drive” and press Enter.

3. Select spare drive from the physical drive list and press Enter.

4. Select spare drive size with ↑ and ↓ keys. See section 6.9 for explanation on selecting size.

5. After the spare drive size is set, the message “Are You Sure?” will display before completing the configuration. Answer

“N” to abort the creation of the spare drive, or “Y” to proceed with the spare drive creation.

5.3 Creating JBOD

Since BIOS no longer reports non-RAID drives to the system BIOS, if a non-RAID boot drive or data drive is desired, a JBOD

can be created so BIOS will report it to the system BIOS.

1. To create a JBOD, Select ”Create RAID set”

2. Select “JBOD” and press Enter.

3. Select JBOD drive from the physical drive list and press Enter.

4. Select JBOD size with ↑ and ↓ keys. See section 6.9 for explanation on selecting size.

5. After the JBOD size is set, the message “Are You Sure?” will display before completing the configuration. Answer “N” to

abort the creation of the JBOD, or “Y” to proceed with the JBOD creation.

5.4 Deleting RAID Groups, Spare Drive, and JBOD

1. To remove one or more RAID sets, spare drives, and JBODs, select “Delete RAID set”

2. Select the desired item to delete from the logical drive list and press Enter.

3. Press “Y” when asked, “Are You Sure?”

4. The drives will be returned to the selection of logical drives from which a new RAID set can be created.