Dell Precision T5400 (Late 2007) User Manual

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Advanced Features

2 Click the Start button and point to ProgramsIntel(R) Matrix Storage

ManagerIntel Matrix Storage Console to launch the Intel Storage

Utility.

3 If you do not see an Actions menu option, you have not yet set your

computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-

Enabled Mode" on page 53).

4 On the Actions menu, select Create RAID Volume to launch the Create

RAID Volume Wizard.

5 Click Next at the first screen.
6 Confirm the volume name, select RAID 5 as the RAID level, and then

click

Next to continue.

7 On the Select Volume Location screen, click the first hard drive you want

to use to create your RAID level 5 volume, and then click the right arrow.

Click two or three additional drives until either three or four drives appear

in the

Selected window, and then click Next.

8 In the Specify Volume Size window, select the Volume Size desired and

click

Next.

9 Click Finish to create the volume, or click Back to make changes.

10 Follow Microsoft Windows procedures for creating a partition on the new

RAID volume.

Deleting a RAID Volume

NOTICE:

While this procedure deletes the RAID 1 volume, it also splits the RAID 1

volume into two non-RAID hard drives with a partition, and leaves any existing data

files intact. Deleting a RAID 0 or 5 volume, however, destroys all data on the volume.

1 Click the Start button and point to ProgramsIntel(R) Matrix Storage

ManagerIntel Matrix Storage Console to launch the Intel Storage

Utility.

2 Right-click the Volume icon of the RAID volume you want to delete, and

select

Delete Volume.

3 On the Delete RAID Volume Wizard screen, click Next.
4 Highlight the RAID volume you want to delete in the Available box, click

the right-arrow button to move the highlighted RAID volume into the

Selected box, and then click Next.

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