User`s guide

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Creating and Modifying Logical Drives
For basic instructions for creating logical drives, see Building Your Storage Space on page 26.
This section describes three additional scenarios for creating logical drives, and provides
instructions for modifying a logical drive as it’s being created.
● To create a new logical drive of a specified size, see the following section.
● To create a logical drive from different-sized disk drives, see page 62.
● To create a logical drive using available segments of disk drives, see page 63.
● To stop the creation of a new logical drive, see page 63.
● To change the priority of a new logical drive’s creation, see page 63.
Creating a Logical Drive of a Specified Size
As described in Step 7 on page 39, Adaptec Storage Manager automatically sets the size of a
new logical drive to maximize the capacity of the disk drives that it comprises. However, you
can choose to set the size for a new logical drive. You may want to do this to maximize your
available disk drive space, or allocate available space to more than one logical drive.
To set the size of a logical drive:
1 Complete Steps 1 through 7 in Custom Configuration (Advanced) on page 38.
2 Click Advanced Settings.
The maximum size of the logical drive appears in the Size (GB) box.
3 Enter the new size for the logical drive. The size you enter must be less than or equal to the
maximum size.
4 Click Next.
5 Review the logical drive settings, click Apply, then click Ye s .
Adaptec Storage Manager builds the logical drive. The configuration is saved in the
Adaptec controller and in the physical drives.
If the disk drives you used to create this logical drive have available space left over, you can
use them to create a new logical drive (see page 63), or to expand an existing logical drive
(see page 70).