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3.
Choose the RAID Level you want. In the Define LD Menu section, press the
Spacebar to toggle through logical drive types:
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RAID 0 (Stripe)
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RAID 1 (Mirror)
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RAID 5 (Distributed Parity)
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RAID 10 (Stripe/Mirror)
You can create your two logical drives with different RAID levels. But you
cannot combine a logical drive and JBOD.
4.
Press the down arrow key to move to the next option. Option choices depend
on the RAID Level you selected.
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Fast Init erases the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the physical drives
when this feature is set to ON. ON is recommended.
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Gigabyte Boundary enables replacement of a failed physical drive with
a slightly smaller physical drive when this feature is set to ON. ON is
recommended.
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Stripe Block Size. Set to 16 KB with no options.
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.
If you set Fast Init to ON, the following message displays:
Press Ctrl-Y again to create the logical drive and perform the Fast
Initialization.
The Modify Array Capacity message displays:
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