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Recreating a raid volume – Promise Technology SMARTSTOR NS4300N User Manual

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Recreating a RAID Volume

To recreate a RAID volume:

1.

Go to the Main Window.

2.

Click the Volume Configuration icon.

3.

Click the Recreate Volume button.

4.

Choose Automatic or Manual RAID Volume creation.

If you chose Manual, choose the type of RAID Volume you want:

Maximum Capacity – RAID 0

Data Protection – RAID 1 or 5, depending on the NAS model and
number of drives

5.

Click the OK button.

6.

Click the Yes button in the first confirmation box.

7.

Type YES then click the OK button in the second confirmation box.

The RAID volume takes several minutes to recreate and initialize, depending
on the size of your disk drives.

Caution

When you recreate a RAID volume, you delete all the data saved
in the volume.

Back up any important data before you recreate a volume.