Western Digital My Book Live Duo User Manual - Manual (Page 77)

MY BOOK LIVE DUO
USER MANUAL
CONFIGURING BASIC SETTINGS – 71
Storage Settings
The Storage page enables you to specify how your My Book Live Duo device will store your
data and to monitor the storage status. You can configure the internal drives to act as one
big fast drive, or set them up so that one drive automatically and instantaneously duplicates
(or mirrors) your data for real-time backup. You can also view the details of your external
USB drive.
To determine which storage type to use, consider the attributes of each:
• Maximum Capacity (Spanning)—Maximum Capacity (Spanning) combines all the
drives in a system into one big volume so that they act like one giant drive.
• Maximum Protection (RAID 1)—Sets the system to data protection mode (also
known as mirrored mode) and the capacity is divided in half. Half of the capacity is
used to store your data and half is used for a duplicate copy. If one drive goes down
your data is protected because it is duplicated.
Note: Putting your drive into Raid1 is not the same as backing up your drive. Although it
does store your data, it can not be used to recover your data from a critical loss.
Monitoring Storage Status
1. Click the Storage tab. The Monitor screen appears, showing the type of configuration
your My Book Live Duo device is set to. The default is Maximum Capacity (Spanning).
This screen also displays the status of your drives.
For the maximum capacity storage type, the drive status may be:
•
Good
• Failed—If a drive has failed, you cannot access your data.
For the maximum protection storage type, the drive status may be:
•
Good
• Failed—Indicates which drive failed. Once you replace the drive, you can access
your data.
• Building—When you replace a faulty drive or after converting from one storage type
to another, the system is rebuilding the configuration.