Creating arrays and hot-spare drives with physical drives

You can create disk arrays to improve security, performance, and reliability.

  1. Create arrays by dragging physical drives from the left tree to an icon in the right tree that is labeled either:

  1. Create hot-spare drives by dragging physical drives from the left tree to the icon labeled hot-spare drives in the right tree. The icon in the left tree will change to the hot-spare icon Hot-spare drive and the drive will appear in the hot-spare drives branch in the right tree as a New Hot spare.

    Tip: If you want to change a New Hot spare back into a ready drive, drag it back to the left tree.

  1. If you want to create a spanned array, click the Span arrays box.

  2. After you define all your arrays and hot-spare drives, click Next. You might want to verify that there are no remaining ready drives first.

Click Back to return to the selection window for Express and Custom configuration modes.
Click Cancel to leave Configuration mode and return to the System Management Information window.

See also

Understanding creating arrays
A sample configuration