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<h1>Understanding creating basic pools</h1>
<p>When you group one or more physical drives together and configure the
  controller to access them in a particular pattern, you create a basic pool.
  The maximum number of basic pools depends on the controller and RAID level.
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<p>Pools are used to improve security, <a href="cfintune.htm">performance</a>,
  and reliability. The amount of improvement depends on the application programs
  that you run on the server, controller parameters, and the RAID levels that you
  assign to the logical devices in your pools.</p>


<h2>More information</h2>

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  <li><a href="ccfgstep.htm">Creating pools and hot-spare drives in the wizard</a></li>
  <li><a href="wselrdcc.htm">Configuring RAID and creating pools</a></li>

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