Creating A Spanned Volume - Buffalo TeraStation WSS 5000 User Manual

Example:
For a configuration with drive 1 (50 GB), drive 2 (80 GB), drive 3 (58 GB), and drive 4 (100 GB), the usable space on the
mirrored volume will be 50 GB x 4 drives = 200 GB.
A striped volume will be created. Next, create a shared folder on the volume as described in chapter 6.

Creating a Spanned Volume

1
In Windows Storage Server, click Launch RAID Builder.
2
Select "Create RAID array" from the drop-down menu and "Spanned" under "RAID structure".
3
Select at least two drives to create spanned array.
4
Click OK.
20