Making different partition

Hello,
Can we make with lenovo iomega IX4-300D diiferent partition ?
i explain what i want, for example:
disk 1 and 2 -> a raid 1 partition
disk 3 and 4 -> a jbod partition
detected as 2 differents drives on the network.
Thanks.
Christophe
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Hello akshaan
Having more than one storage pool on an ix line of devices do not support multiple storage pools. It only allows all the disks in the unit to be added to the existing storage pool or erasing the old storage pool and creating a all new storage pool depending on the type of RAID protection changes made. The PX line of devices can have mulitple storage pools, with at least one disk per storage pool. They also allow for custom (Share) volume allocations per storage pool.
If you needs require this sort of configuration you would want to look at a px device instead of an ix device.
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