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򐂰 Swap drive: The Swap Drive action can be used to replace a drive in the array with
another drive with the status of Candidate or Spare. This action is used to replace a drive
that has failed, or is expected to fail soon. For example, as indicated by an error message
in the event log. Select an MDisk containing the drive to be replaced and click RAID
Actions
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Swap Drive. In the Swap Drive window (Figure 8-48), select the member drive
to be replaced and click Next.
Figure 8-48 Select a drive to swap out of the MDisk
In Figure 8-49, select an available Candidate or Spare drive to swap into the Array MDisk
and click Finish.
Figure 8-49 Select a drive to swap into the MDisk
The exchange of the drives starts and runs in the background, and the volumes on the
affected MDisk remain accessible.