26 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 4.0
CHAPTER 2
Setting Up Your RAID Configuration
Assigning the Disks
The disks that you enabled from the RAID Config BIOS setup page appear in the Free
Disks block. These are the drives that are available for use as RAID array disks.
To designate a free disk to be used as a RAID array disk,
1Tab to the Free Disks section.
The first disk in the list is selected
2Move it from the Free Disks block to the Array Disks block by pressing the right-
arrow key (Æ).
The firs t disk in t he list is moved, an d the nex t disk in t he list is selected and read y to
be moved.
3Continue pressing the right-arrow key (Æ) until all the disks that you want to use as
RAID array disks appear in the Array Disks block.
Figure 2.15 illustrates the Define a New Array screen after two disks have been
assigned as RAID1 array disks.
Figure 2.15
MediaShield Utility—Array Disks Assigned
MediaShield Utility
- Define a New Array -
Free Disks
Loc Disk Model Name
Array Disks
Loc Disk Model Name
[ ] Add
[ ] Del
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[F6] Back [F7] Finish [TAB] Navigate [ ] Select [ENTER] Popup
RAID Mode: Striping Block:
Mirroring Optimal