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Often referred to as RAID 0, the primary purpose is to increase performance. It is
important to realize that Striping does not create multiple copies of the Data like a Mirror
and therefore does not protect against data loss if a drive were to fail.
1.
Within the
Disk Management
menu, select
Create New Pool
2.
New Pool Name.
Enter a unique name for the new pool that you wish to
create.
3.
Select the
Striping
check box.
4.
Select the # of external disks to be included in the Striped pool within the
Number of Stripes
section.
•
If you wish to have the DiskGO configure the pools automatically
check the
Auto Configuration
box within
Pool Mapping preferences
and move on to Step 5.
If you wish to manually configure the drives
select
Manual Configuration
within the
Pool Mapping Preferences
section and move on to Step 6.
5.
To utilize all available disk space select
Maximize Size
. If you wish to
allocate space manually uncheck
Maximize Size
and enter the desired
amount of space per Stripe (gigabytes) within the
Space Allocation
section. Click on
Create Pool.
6.
To manually configure the drives assign the appropriate drive number
within
Drive Assignment
(Stripe 0, Stripe 1 and Stripe 3). Enter the
desired amount of space per Stripe (gigabytes) within the
Space
Allocation
section. Click on
Create Pool.
*An external hard drive or drives must be connected to the DiskGO via USB in order to
utilize a Striped Pool.
Enc rypting the Pool
Encrypting pools provides security for all data stored within that specific pool.
Encrypted pools must be mounted (see “
Remounting an Encrypted Pool”
) each time the
DiskGO is rebooted, powered off, restored, or removed from the network. The following
steps should be used to encrypt a pool:
1.
Within the
Disk Management
menu, select
Create New Pool
2.
New Pool Name.
Enter a unique name for the new pool that you wish to
create.
3.
Select the
Encrypt Pool
check box.
4.
Enter a unique password within
Encryption Password.
Note that only
alphanumeric characters may be used. The password also should be at
least 8 characters long.
5.
Re-enter the password within the
Confirm Password
field
.
6.
Allocate all available disk space by leaving the
Auto Configuration
and
Maximize Size
box checked within the
Pool Mapping Preference
section. Click
Create Pool.
Or to manually allocate Disk Space to the
new Pool select
Manual Configuration
within the
Pool Mapping
Preference
section and assign the desired size (gigabytes) by using the
slider. Click
Create Pool.
Changing the Encryption Password