Option Description
Select Drives From Enables the physical drive selection option:
• Free Capacity uses unused (free) drive capacity
that is already part of a logical drive.
• Unconfigured Capacity creates a logical drive on
unconfigured drives.
Select Drive View steps here.
Logical Drive Name Name of logical drive
Logical Drive Size Displays and/or assigns the amount of logical drive
storage space. By default, it assigns the maximum
capacity available for the logical drive.
NOTE: Only three decimal places are accepted.
Logical Drive Size
Unit
Displays the amount of logical drive storage space in
megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes.
Strip size Selects the strip element size for the logical drive.
Drive striping involves partitioning each drive storage
space into strips of different sizes the controller
firmware supports.
Read policy Selects the read cache policy for the logical drive.
The read cache policy of a logical drive determines
how the controller handles reads to that logical drive.
Possible settings are:
• No read ahead - specifies that the controller does
not use read ahead for the current logical drive.
• Read ahead - allows the controller to read
sequentially ahead of requested data and store
the additional data in cache memory, anticipating
that the data is required soon.
I/O Policy Displays and/or selects the I/O policy for the logical
drive. The possible settings are Direct and Cached.
Access policy Displays and/or selects the access policy for the
logical drive. The possible settings are Read/Write,
Read Only, or Blocked.
Drive cache Drive cache setting--can be set to Unchanged,
Enable, or Disable.
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