Western Digital WD20000H2Q-00 User Manual - Page 16

MY BOOK MIRROR EDITION USER MANUAL 6 WD RAID Manager for Windows WD RAID Manager is a tool designed to help you easily manage your RAID system, including changing the RAID configuration and formatting the device. To launch WD RAID Manager, right-click the WD Drive Manager system tray icon and point to WD My Book. Click WD RAID Manager. Configuring RAID My Book Mirror Edition is preformatted as a single Windows NTFS partition and is pre-configured for RAID 1 (Mirrored) mode for data protection which dedicates half the capacity to mirror the data in both drives A and B. This product also supports RAID 0 (Striped) mode for maximum capacity and accelerated performance. Important: Before you proceed, make sure to back up all files stored in My Book onto another storage device. 1. To configure or change the RAID setting, select the device from the menu and click Next. 2. Select the desired RAID configuration by clicking RAID 0 or RAID 1 (the following example shows RAID 0). Select Quick NTFS format if you want the drive formatted automatically following completion of the new RAID setting. WD RAID MANAGER FOR WINDOWS - 13