Promise Technology EX4350 quick start Create a Logical Drive

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Step 4: Create a Logical Drive

In the popup menu, highlight your choice of RAID Level and press Enter.

The available RAID Levels depend on the number of physical drives you selected for this logical drive.

8.Press the arrow keys to highlight Logical Drive Name. Type a name for your logical drive and press Enter.

9.To use less than the full physical drive capacity for this logical drive, highlight Capacity and press Enter.

Press the Delete or Backspace keys to erase the current capacity. Type the new capacity in MB to allocate to this logical drive.

Later, you can assign the unused capacity to a second logical drive.

10.To change the Stripe Size, highlight Stripe Size and press Enter. Highlight your choice of 32, 64 or 128 KB and press Enter.

11.To change the Initialization Mode, highlight Init Mode and press Enter. Highlight your choice of No, Quick, or Full initialization and press Enter.

12.To change the Write Cache Policy, highlight Write Cache Policy and press Enter.

Highlight your choice of Write Through or Write Back and press Enter.

13.To change the Gigabyte Boundary feature, highlight Gigabyte Boundary and press Enter.

Highlight your choice of No or Yes and press Enter.

14.Highlight Save and press Enter.

The Logical Drive Management screen appears with your new logical drive.

At this point you can create additional logical drives, if there is physical drive space available.

15.Press the F10 key to exit the SuperBuild utility and press Y to confirm and restart the computer.

Do not press the Ctrl-Alt-Del keys. Do not press the Esc key.

You have successfully created a new RAID logical drive.

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Promise Technology EX4350 quick start Create a Logical Drive