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Creating a Spare Drive Manually
This feature creates a spare drive only. You can also use the Wizard to create a disk array with logical
drives and spare drives at the same time.
To create a spare drive:
1. From the Dashboard window, click the
Spare Drive
link.
2. Click the
Create Spare Drive
button.
3. For each of the following items, accept the default or change the settings as required:
•
Check the
Revertible
box if you want a revertible spare drive.
A revertible spare drive returns to its spare drive assignment after you replace the failed
physical drive in the disk array and run the Transition function.
•
Type
(choose spare type)
•
Global
– Can be used by any disk array
•
Dedicated
to a disk array. Click the radio button next to the disk array to which this spare
drive is dedicated.
•
Media Type
If you have more than one type of physical drive installed (SSD and HDD for
example) choose the type of drive for the spare.
Create Spare Drive - Choose physical drive