LED
Color
Meaning
Blinking red
Power is out of spec
Green
Power is on
Drive 1 through Drive 4
Off
No drive activity
Blinking green
Drive activity
Green
No drive activity
Drive manufacturers define the optional drive activity signal in different ways.
Some manufacturers unassert the activity signal when there is no drive activity, with
LEDs off, while others assert the signal, with LEDs on.
Software/Driver Installation
The PXIe-8267 does not include interface software to configure the RAID. You must
use the Disk Management Utility in Windows to manage the software RAID.
Note
The PXIe-8267 supports only Windows 10 (64-bit).
Note
Refer to the drive manufacturer's website for information regarding
monitoring drive temperatures.
No driver is necessary to configure the drives. The Standard Microsoft NVME driver is
pre-installed in Windows 10.
RAID Creation
To configure the software RAID on the PXIe-8267, complete the following steps.
Note
Back up your data before you configure the software RAID.
Note
In the following steps, the disk drive capacities in the images are
examples. You may see different capacities depending on your disk drives.
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PXIe-8267 Getting Started
