SubC Imaging DVRO User Manual page 65

RAID
Configuration
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks and refers to any technology that combines
multiple physical disk drive components into a single logical unit for the purposes of data redundancy
and recovery.
You can set up your video recording drives to mirror each other for redundancy. This halves the overall
capacity, but if one of the drives fail you can recover your recordings in full from the other drive, replace
the failed drive, and resume recording.*
1. Press the Windows Start
2.
Type create and format hard disk partitions into the
Alternatively, you can type disk management as that is the name of the utility.
3. Select Create and format hard disk partitions
4. Any freshly-installed drives will be greyed out. Right-click on one and select
5. Follow the instructions and choose the second drive as the mirror.
6. Accepting defaults, press
7. Leave the Disk Management
* For detailed information about recovering from a disk failure in a RAID configuration, contact your
system administrator.
button.
from the search results to open
Next as needed.
program running until the drives turn red.
Search Programs and Files text box.
Disk Management.
New Mirrored Volume.
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