Promise Technology EX4650, EX8658, EX8654, EX8650 manual Installation

Chapter 2: Installation

11. Highlight Next Step and press Enter.

The Create Logical Drive Step 2/2 screen appears.

12.To change the RAID Level, highlight RAID Level and press Enter.

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 your disk array.

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

14.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.

15.To change the Stripe Size, highlight Stripe Size and press Enter.

Highlight your choice of 64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB, 512 KB, or 1024 KB and press Enter.

16.To change the Sector Size, highlight Sector Size and press Enter.

Use the default 512 B. Only exceptions are logical drives larger than 2 TB on Windows XP 32-bit. See page 246 for more information.

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