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User’s Manual
3.2. Creating an Array

3.2.1 Enable/Disable Over 2TB capacity

ACS-77100 supports over 2TB capacity. The steps below will guide you to enable/disable over
2TB capacity.
1. Select scroll button to find the capacity setting item on LCD panel. (P.18, 4.1.2. Set over
2TB capacity Messages )
2. Press the ENT button, and select (YES) or (NO) by the scroll buttons.
Note
If you want to create the array with over 2TB capacity, the
settin
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must be finished before to create an arra
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.
3. Press the ENT button to confirm the setting.

3.2.2 Creating an Array

The steps below will guide you to create an array on the ACS-77100.
1. Configure RAID level.
2. Power on the ACS-77100 without disks installed.
3. Install 4 disks on ACS-77100.
4. After ACS-77100 recognized all disks. A messageCreate New RAID?will be displayed
on the LCD panel.
5. Select YESby the scroll buttons and press the ENT button to create array.
Note
During the RAID-creating procedure, the percentage of RAID
initialization progress will be displayed on the LCD panel.
Note
The initialization process is a time-intensive process and is
dependent upon the size of the disks. For example, four 400GB
disks in a RAID 5 array could take over about two hours.