c.The selection bar moves to the Physical Drive menu. Using the up or down arrow keys, select a drive then press <Enter> to set the first drive of the RAID set.

 

PHYSICAL DRIVE

 

 

0

XXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXMB

 

1

XXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXMB

2

XXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXMB

3

XXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXMB

 

 

 

 

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.

MAIN MENU

Auto configuration

Manual configuration

Create with data copy

Create without data copy

•The Create with data copy option allows you to copy the current data from the source drive to the mirror drive. The Create without data copy option disables the disk copy function of the Mirrored set.

•If you selected Create without data copy , the RAID 1 set must be repartitioned and reformatted to guarantee the consistency of its contents.

•Select Create with data copy if you have important data in your source drive.

f.If you selected Create with data copy, the following pop-up menu appears.

MAIN MENU

Auto configuration

Manual configuration

online copy offline copy

The online copy option automatically copies the data to the target drives on the background while writing to the source drives. The offline copy option allows you to copy the contents of the source drive to the target drives now.

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