Iomega StorCenter px2-300d, User Manual

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Iomega StorCenter px2-300d User Guide
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Adding and Managing Storage Pools
A Storage Pool is a grouping of drives with a certain storage size and an assigned data protection. A
Storage Pool has a minimum of one drive. By default, your Iomega StorCenter px2-300d has one
Storage Pool.
Cache Pools
When you create a Storage Pool, you can choose to create a cache pool. Cache pools consist of solid-
state drives only, and they are intended to increase the performance of read and write operations.
To add a Storage Pool
1. On the Drive Management page, click Add Storage Pool .
2. In the Information section, enter a name for the Storage Pool.
3. To set the RAID protection, choose a value from the drop-down menu:
None (RAID 0)
Uses all of the storage space for data. Does not protect against data loss in the event of drive
failure.
Mirror Stripe (RAID 10)
Uses half of the storage space for protection, leaving half for actual data. Protects data in the
event of a single drive failure.
Parity (RAID 5)
Uses 1/4 of the storage space for protection, leaving 3/4 for actual data.
Double Parity (RAID 6)
Combines four or more drives in a way that protects data against loss of any two drives.
4. Select the checkbox of the drive or drives you want to add to the Storage Pool. All drives in a
Storage Pool must be the same size.
5. Check Enable periodic consistency check to enable a monthly parity or mirror consistency
check.
6. If commonly used Shares, Backups, Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and SharedMedia do
not already exist on the px2-300d, check
Create commonly used Shares to create these Shares
and add them to the Storage Pool. This option is not available if you are creating a cache pool.
7. Check Use for SSD Cache to allow one or more solid-state drives (SSD) to be used as a cache
pool. You can only designate SSDs as cache pool drives if they have not already been assigned
to an existing Storage Pool. This cache pool becomes assigned to the Storage Pool you are
creating.
8. Click Create to add the new Storage Pool.
9. Click Cancel to discard any changes.