Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head - Manual (Page 178)

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Technically speaking, Initialization is a foreground activity, as you cannot access a logical drive while it is
initiating.
Initialization is normally done to logical drives after they are created from a disk array. Initialization sets all data
bits in the logical drive to zero. The action is useful because there may be residual data on the logical drives left
behind from earlier configurations. For this reason, Initialization is recommended whenever you create a logical
drive. See “Initializing a Logical Drive” on page 206.
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To make initialization settings:
1. Click the Administration tab.
2. Click the Background Activities icon.
3. Click the Settings button.
4. Click the Logical Drive Initialization Rate drop-down menu and choose a rate:
• Low – Fewer system resources to Initialization, more to data read/write operations.
• Medium – Balances system resources between
Initialization and data read/write operations.
• High – More system resources to Initialization, fewer to data read/write operations.
5. Click the Confirm button.