Chapter 2
Removing and Replacing MEDIArray ZX4 Drives
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Drive Management Overview
The following are two scenarios that you can use to help manage your
drives to determine if they should be replaced.
1. Wait until a drive fails
2. Monitor the drives and attempt to replace drives that seem to be
slowing up or causing some type of problem but have not yet failed
outright.
No matter which decision you make, only the MEDIArray ZX enclosure
allows you to replace a failing drive with power on.
To replace a MEDIArray ZX drive with power on you must have the
following:
•
A spare drive that is the same size within the same data disk set that
contains the failing drive, before the drive failure occurs.
•
The Windows 2000 operating system running on your File Manager
(and Fail-over File Manager if you have one)
Identifying Bad Drives
There are two programs that you can use to help determine disk problems:
•
Disk Error Analyzer
•
MEDIArray ZX Viewer
