What are the logical drive I/O characteristics?

I/O characteristics are used by the to determine the appropriate default and for a particular logical drive.

When you choose one of the logical drive I/O characteristics, the corresponding dynamic cache prefetch setting and segment size that are typically well suited for expected I/O patterns are populated in the Dynamic cache read prefetch field and the Segment size field.

You can change the cache read prefetch later by selecting Logical Drive >> Change >> Cache Settings . You can change the segment size later by selecting Logical Drive >> Change >> Segment Size .

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