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Creating Spare Drive
If there is a RAID 1 set, spare driver can be created. The spare drive can be
allocated to the RAID 1 set in the event of a failure of one of the drives in the RAID1
set.
1. To create a spare drive for RAID 1 set, Select “Create RAID set”
2. Select “Spare Drive” and press Enter.
3. Select spare drive from the physical drive list and press Enter.
4. Select spare drive size with
and
keys.
5. After the spare drive size is set, the message “Are You Sure (Y/N)?” will display
before completing the configuration. Answer “N” to abort the creation of the spare
drive, or “Y” to proceed with the spare drive creation.
Creating JBOD
Since BIOS no longer reports non-RAID drives to the system BIOS, if a non-RAID
boot drive or data drive is desired, a JBOD can be created so BIOS will report it to
the system BIOS.
1. To create a JBOD, Select ”Create RAID set”.
2. Select “JBOD” and press Enter.
3. Select JBOD drive from the physical drive list and press Enter.
4. Select JBOD size with
and
keys.
5. After the JBOD size is set, the message “Are You Sure?” will display before
completing the configuration. Answer “N” to abort the creation of the JBOD, or “Y” to
proceed with the JBOD creation.
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