46 Advanced FeaturesNOTICE: All data will be lost upon creation of the RAID volume. Dellrecommends backing up your data before performing these steps.When creating an IS (striped) RAID volume:• All drives must be either Dell compliant SAS or SATA hard drives.• SAS and SATA hard drives cannot be used in the same RAID volume.• Drives must have 512 byte blocks and must not have removablemedia.• There can be at minimum of 2 and a maximum of 4 hard drives in aRAID volume.5 Press and then select Save changes when the RAID volume has beenfully configured.6 Exit this menu to save the changes. The Configuration Utility will pausewhile the RAID volume is being created.Creating a RAID Level 1 ConfigurationFollow these steps to create a RAID 1 volume on a SAS 6/iR controller thatdoes not currently have a RAID volume configured.1 Select a controller from the Adapter List in the Configuration Utility.2 Select the RAID Properties option.3 Select Create IM Volume when you are prompted to create either an IS(striped) RAID volume or an IM (mirrored) RAID volume.The next screen shows a list of hard drives that can be added to a RAIDvolume.4 Move the cursor to the RAID Disk column. To add a hard drive to theRAID volume, change “No” to “Yes” by pressing the <+>, <->, or spacebar. As hard drives are added, the Virtual Disk Size field changes to reflectthe new size of the RAID volume.NOTICE: All data will be lost upon creation of the RAID volume. Dellrecommends backing up your data before performing these steps.When creating an IM (mirrored) RAID volume:• All drives must be either Dell compliant SAS or SATA hard drives.• SAS and SATA hard drives cannot be used in the same RAID volume.
