Step 3. Setting up drives

This article contains both text and video instructions.

Table of contents:

• Video tutorial on setting up drives
• Drive for content
• Drive for images
• Drive for writebacks

How to set up drives?

You need to set up three types of drives:

• Content drive
• Image drive
• Writebacks drive

How to set up a content drive?

A content drive will contain all the games and applications available in the venue. This drive will be available for viewing and editing by all visitors. All changes made by any client are available only to this client and will be deleted after the PC is rebooted.

To set up:

1. Open the local SENET Boot Admin panel and go to SENET Boot Settings → Set disks.
2. In the Local Disk field, select:

• • Disk type: Content.
  • Client drive: disk letter (for example, D).
  • Zones: select the zones in which the content disk will be available.

 3. Save the changes.

🔎Additionally, you can configure the RAM cache function for the content drive. The cache is available for the content disk only.

How to set up an image drive?

This drive will store the created images (copies of the operating system data) that will be available to all visitors of the venue on client PCs.

To set up:

1. Open the local SENET Boot Admin panel and go to SENET Boot Settings → Set disks.
2. In the Local Disk field, select:

• Disk type: Images.
• Client drive: disk letter (for example, F).
• Zones: select the zones in which this image will be loaded.

3. Save the changes.

How to set up a drive for writebacks?

Writebacks are temporary files created when a PC is turned on and stored until it is restarted. When the client workstation restarts, the system deletes the old writeback file and creates a new one. If the PC is turned off and not restarted, the system will delete the writeback file 5 minutes after the computer is turned off.

To set up:

1. Open the local SENET Boot Admin panel and go to SENET Boot Settings → Set disks.
2. In the Local Disk field, select:

• • Disk type: Writebacks.
  • Client drive: drive letter (for example, W).
  • Zones: select the zones in which this image will be booted.

3. Save the changes.

📌You can use multiple drives for writebacks, and the system will automatically distribute the load between them. By default, the "Most empty" algorithm is used, which focuses on the disk with the most free memory to store data. However, a problem may arise if one of the drives has a significantly larger capacity, as it will be prioritized until it is equal in size to the other one.

There is an alternative algorithm, "Round robin", which can be activated through a local configuration file.

Step 4. Creating an image/Installing Windows↗

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