You can choose Write Back or Write Thru.
Write Policy | Description |
Write Back | The controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the |
| host when the controller cache has received all the data in a |
| transaction. |
Write Thru | The controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the |
| host when the disk array has received all the data in a |
| transaction. This is the default setting. Write Thru has a data |
| security advantage over Write Back. Write Back has a |
| performance advantage over Write Thru. |
Virtual Sizing
This feature is not available.
Add Capacity
Click on this option to add additional physical drive(s) to the specified logical drive. First click on the drive icon for each physical drive to be added. Then click on the icon for the logical drive to be added to. Then select [Add Capacity] from the [Logical Drv] menu.
Click on [OK] when prompted to confirm the new logical drive configuration. Select a new RAID level. You can select any RAID level that is not grayed out. Click on [APPLY] to complete the operation.
NOTES:
The physical drive must be in the READY state before it can be added to a logical drive.
No operation can be started while a drive is being reconstructed.
With Windows 2000, Add Capacity is available only for basic disk, not for dynamic disk.
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