Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head - Manual (Page 229)

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This feature creates a logical drive only. You can also use the Wizard to create a disk array with logical drives
and spare drives at the same time.
This action requires Super User or Power User privileges.
To create a logical drive manually:
1. Click the Storage tab.
2. Click the Logical Drive icon.
3. Click the Create Logical Drive button.
4. Click the option button of the disk array you want to use and click the Next button.
5. Optional. Enter an alias in the Alias field.
Maximum of 32 characters; letters, numbers, space between characters, and underline.
6. Choose a RAID level.
The choice of RAID levels depends the number of physical drives in the disk array.
7. RAID 30, 50 and 60 only. Specify the number of axles for your array.
8. In the Capacity field, accept the default maximum capacity or enter a lesser capacity and size in MB, GB
or TB.
Any remaining capacity is available for an additional logical drive.
9. For each of the following items, accept the default or change the settings as required:
• Choose a Stripe size.
64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB, 512 KB, and 1 MB are available.
• Choose a Sector size.
512 B, 1 KB, 2 KB, and 4 KB are available.
• Choose a Read (cache) Policy.
Read Cache, Read Ahead, and No Cache are available.
• Choose a Write (cache) Policy.
Write Back and Write Through (Thru) are available.
• Check box of Perfect Rebuild Enable / Disable Perfect Rebuild
10. Click the Add button.
The new logical drive appears on the list at the right.