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NOTE: Try to use drives of the same capacity in a specific array. If you use drives with different capacities in an array, all drives in the array are treated as if they have the capacity of the smallest drive in the array.

3Press the arrow keys to highlight specific physical drives.

4Press the spacebar to associate the selected physical drive with the current array.

The indicator for the selected drive changes from READY to ONLIN A[array number]-[drive number]. For example, ONLIN A2-3means disk drive 3 in array 2.

5Add physical drives to the current array as desired.

The number of physical drives in a specific array determines the RAID levels that can be implemented with the array.

RAID 0 requires one or more physical drives.

RAID 1 requires exactly two physical drives.

RAID 5 requires at least three physical drives.

RAID 10 requires at least four physical drives.

RAID 50 requires at least six physical drives.

6Press <Enter> after you finish creating the current array.

A window entitled Select Configurable Array(s) appears. It displays the array, and array number, such as A-00.

7Press the spacebar to select the array.

Span information, such as Span-1, displays in the array box. You can create multiple arrays, then select them to span them.

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