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VTrak E-Class Product Manual
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• Choose a media type – Hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state drive
(SSD)
2. Mouse-over the enclosure graphic to view information about physical drives.
Look for drives with a green LED dark, a blue LED lit, and no crosshatching
over the carrier.
3. Click a physical drive to select it for your array.
The physical drive’s ID number is added to the Selected list.
4. Click the Next button to continue.
The Create Logical Drive screen displays.
Task 2 – Logical Drive Creation
To create your logical drive:
1. Enter your information and choose your options.
• Enter a logical drive alias in the field provided
• Choose a RAID level from the dropdown menu.
Note the Max: capacity value. Then enter a capacity value the field
provided and choose a unit of measure from the dropdown menu.
• Choose a Stripe size.
64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB, 512 KB, and 1 MB are available.
• Choose a Sector size.
512 B, 1 KB, 2 KB, and 4 KB are available.
• Choose a Read (cache) Policy.
The choices are Read Cache, Read Ahead (cache), and None.
• Choose a Write (cache) Policy.
The choices are WriteThru (write through) and WriteBack. Write back
requires a Read Cache or Read Ahead Read Cache Policy.
• RAID 6 and 60 only. Choose a scheme from the dropdown menu.
The choices are P+Q and Q+Q. If in doubt, use the default P+Q.
• Choose a preferred controller ID from the dropdown menu.
The choices are Controller 1, Controller 2, and Automatic. If in doubt,
use the default Automatic.
2. Click the Add button.
The new logical drive appears on the list at the right.
Green LED dark
Blue LED lit