Changing The Raid Level Of A Logical Drive - Adaptec RAID 3085 User Manual

Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive

As your requirements change, you can change the RAID level of your logical drives to suit your
needs. You may want to do this to add redundancy to protect your data, or improve data
availability for speedier access to your data. See
more information.
Changing the RAID level normally requires one or more disk drives to be added to or removed
from the logical drive. Adaptec Storage Manager won't allow you to continue unless you have
the right number of disk drives available.
To change the RAID level of a logical drive:
1
In the Enterprise View, click the controller associated with the logical drive.
2
In the Logical Devices View, click the logical drive.
3
In the menu bar, select Actions, then click Expand or change logical device (see
A wizard opens to help you change the RAID level.
4
Select a new RAID level, then click Next. Only valid options are offered.
In the example shown in this section, a RAID 1 logical drive is being changed to a RAID 5
logical drive.
Chapter 6: Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares
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