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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: WebBIOS Configuration Utility | Creating a Storage Configuration
2. Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in
the Drive Groups panel on the right, as shown in Figure 35 .
If you need to undo the changes, click Reclaim.
3. Choose whether to use power save mode.
4. Choose whether to use drive encryption.
NOTE: A RAID 1 virtual drive can contain up to 16 drive groups and 32 drives in a single
span. (Other factors, such as the type of controller, can limit the number of drives.) You
must use two drives in each RAID 1 drive group in the span.
Figure 35: Drive Group Definition Dialog
5. After you finish selecting drives for the drive group, click Accept DG.
6. Click Next.
The Drive Group Definition dialog appears, as shown in Figure 36 . You use this
dialog to select the RAID level, strip size, read policy, and other attributes for the
new virtual drives.