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3.
On the Create menu, use the arrow keys to highlight the Select Devices item and press Enter. A device
list will appear, and display all available hard disk drives.
4.
Highlight the target disks that you want to use, and press Enter to select them. You can use the arrow
keys to select from the next set of disks (the screen will display 8 ports at a time. A numeral will be
displayed before each selected disk. This number designates disk order. After all of the disks have
been selected and press the ESC key to return to the Create Menu.
5.
Next, Use the ↓ arrow key to highlight the Capacity (GB) option and press Enter. The total available
capacity will be displayed. Press ENTER if you wish to use all available space. If you wish to reserve
disk space for additional arrays/single disks, use the keyboard to input the amount of space (in GB)
you wish to set aside for this particular array, and press Enter.
Note: Multiple arrays can be created using the same set of hard disk drives.
The Capacity option allows you to set aside disk space that be used to create another array, set as a spare
disk, or partitioned to act as a single disk (by the operating system).
6.
For redundant RAID arrays (RAID 1, 5, 10), select the Cache Policy:
Write Back – utilizes disk cache (higher performing)
Write Through – writes directly to the disks (may reduce the risk of data loss during a critical failure, but
at the cost of lower performance).
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