LaCie Professional Server
Disk Numbering
Technical Brief: RAID
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In our example,
Disk 1
was removed from its slot, becoming the
Missing
disk in Windows Disk Management. If the 5big Storage
Server is restarted with the empty slot, Windows will assign new num-
bers to three of the five drives (
Fig. 14
and
Fig. 15
):
✦
Disk 0 remains Disk 0
✦
Disk 2 becomes Disk 1
✦
Disk 3 becomes Disk 2
✦
Disk 4 becomes Disk 3
The
Missing
disk will remain on the list until it is manually removed
from Disk Management (
9.2.1. Removing the Missing Disk
).
Slight confusion could occur when a replacement disk is inserted
into the empty slot after the 5big Storage Server reboots (
Fig. 15
,
b
). While the slot once had a disk that Windows recognized as
Disk
1
(
Fig. 10
and
Fig. 11
), that number is now taken by another drive
(
Fig. 15
,
c
).
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Fig. 14
Fig. 15
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LAN 1
USB
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LAN 1
USB
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LAN 2
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b
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