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Quick Start Guide for Tempo-X SATA 4+4

Drive Formatting—RAID Arrays (continued)

4. Click the RAID tab in the Disk Utility window, select all the drives you

will use to create your RAID 0 (Stripe) array, and drag them into the disk
fi eld (Figure 9). Be careful to NOT accidentally drag in a drive you
don’t want included in the RAID
.

5. From the drop-down menus, select the RAID scheme (stripe) and the vol-

ume format, and then type in the name for your RAID volume (Figure 9).

6. When the Creating RAID window appears, click the Create button; all

of the selected drives will be formatted and the RAID volume created
(Figure 10). Close Disk Utility; your drives are now ready to use and your
installation is complete.

Figure 9

Figure 10

Support Note:

The remaining steps in this section describe the creation

of a RAID 0 (striped) array. If you intend to create a RAID 1 (mirrored)

array, the procedure is similar to the remaining steps. Please refer to Disk Utility
help for further information.