C Hoosing E Xpress C Onfiguration - Promise Pegasus2 R6 Product Manual

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T o use the Express Configuration Wizard:
1. From the Storage menu choose Wizard.
2. Click the Express button.
The Express configuration dialog box appears. See Figure 7.
Express Configuration dialog box
3. Check the boxes to choose any one or a combination of:
• Redundancy – The array remains available if a physical drive fails
• Capacity – The greatest possible amount of data capacity
• Performance – The highest possible read/write speed
• Spare Drive – Check box to create a hot spare drive (R6 and R8 only)
• Number of Logical Drives – Enter a number of logical drives to create
• Application Type - Choose how the storage is used
4. In the Number of Logical Drives field, type the number of logical drives you want to make from
this disk array. Pegasus supports 1 to 32 logical drives.
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