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c. Using the up or down arrow keys, select a drive then press

to set the first drive of the RAID set.

d. Repeat step c to set the second, third, and fourth drive. The

number of available drives depend on the installed and enabled
physical drives in the system.

e. After setting the RAID drives, the following pop-up menu appears.

PHYSICAL DRIVE

0 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB

1 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB
2 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB
3 XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMB

MAIN MENU

Auto configuration

Manual configuration

Create with data copy

Create without data copy

b. Use the up or down arrow keys to select a chunk size appropriate

to your drive usage then press . The selection bar moves
to the Physical Drive menu.

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The C r e a t e w i t h d a t a c o p y

C r e a t e w i t h d a t a c o p y

C r e a t e w i t h d a t a c o p y option allows you to copy the

current data from the source drive to the mirror drive. The C r e a t e

C r e a t e

w i t h o u t d a t a c o p y

w i t h o u t d a t a c o p y option disables the disk copy function of the
Mirrored set.

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If you selected C r e a t e w i t h o u t d a t a c o p y

C r e a t e w i t h o u t d a t a c o p y

C r e a t e w i t h o u t d a t a c o p y , the RAID 1 set

must be repartitioned and reformatted to guarantee the consistency
of its contents.

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Select C r e a t e w i t h d a t a c o p y

C r e a t e w i t h d a t a c o p y

C r e a t e w i t h d a t a c o p y if you have important data in

your source drive.