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Step 2 – Logical Drive Creation
Advanced Configuration (Step 1 Logical Drive Creation)
Optional. Enter an alias for the logical drive in the field provided. Maximum of
32 characters; letters, numbers, space between characters, and underline.
Choose a RAID level for the logical drive from the dropdown menu.
The choice of RAID levels depends the number of physical drives you se-
lected.
RAID 30, 50 and 60 only – Specify the number of axles for your array.
Specify a Capacity and the unit of measure (B, KB, MB, GB, TB).
This value will be the data capacity of the first logical drive in your new disk
array. If you specify less than disk array's maximum capacity, the remaining
capacity is available for additional logical drives that you can create now or
later.
3.
For the following items, accept the default or choose a new value from the
dropdown menu:
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Stripe size. 64 KB is the default.
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64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB, 512 KB, and 1 MB are available.
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Sector size. 512 B is the default.
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512 B, 1 KB, 2 KB, and 4 KB are available.
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Read (cache) Policy. Read Ahead is the default.
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Read Cache, Read Ahead, and No Cache are available.
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Write (cache) Policy. Write Back is the default.
Write Back and Write Through (Thru) are available.
Click the Update button.
4.
A new logical drive is displayed under New Logical Drives. If there is free capacity re-
maining, you can specify another logical drive now or wait until later.
When you are done specifying logical drives, click the Next button.
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