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2. In the Drive Group window, set the SSD Cache RAID level and select one or more unconfigured SSD
drives. Use the Add button to place the selected drives into the drive group.
RAID 0 is the recommended RAID level for the SSD Cache volume.
The following figure shows the SSD Cache drive group.
Figure 29 Creating SSD Cache Drive Group 1
3. Click Create Drive Group and then click Next.
4. In the Create SSD Cache SSD Caching Virtual Drive window, update the SSD Caching VD name and
set the size as necessary.
The maximum allowable size for the SSD Cache volume is 512 GB. To achieve optimal read cache
performance, the recommended best practice is to make the size as large as possible with the available
SSDs, up to this limit.
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