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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 8: Configuration | Creating a New Storage Configuration
2. Select the Simple radio button and click Next.
The Create Virtual Drive - Allocate capacity dialog appears, as shown in the following
figure. If unconfigured drives are available, you have the option to use those
unconfigured drives. If unconfigured drives are available, the Create Drive Group
Settings window appears and you can go to step 4.
Figure 207: Using the Free Capacity of an Existing Drive Group
3. Perform either of the two options:
 If a drive group exists, select the Use free capacity on an existing drive group
radio button and click Next. Continue with step 4.
The Create Virtual Drive window appears, as shown in Figure 208 . If different types
of drives are attached to the controller, such as HDD, SDD, SAS, and SATA, an option
appears to allow drive type mixing.
 If unconfigured drives are available, select the radio button to use the unconfigured
drives, and click Next. Continue with step 10.
The Summary window appears as shown in figure 197.