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ASUS GUI RAID Manager: Array Management
4.16
Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion
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4.16
Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion
What Is It and How Does It Work?
Before Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion, increasing the
capacity of a RAID system using traditional methods
meant backing up, re-creating and then restoring. Dynamic
Logical Drive Expansion (a new feature of firmware
version 2.11) allows users to add new SCSI hard disk
drives and expand a RAID 0, 3 or 5 Logical Drive without
powering down the system.
4.16.1
Two Modes of Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion
There are two modes of Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion:
Mode 1 and Mode 2.
Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion
Mode 1
Mode 2