ESS Series
User’s Manual
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Figure 3-18
3.4.1.1
Enable disk indicator light
In Figure 3-18, click
to
enable HDD indicator light, you can turn on the corresponding HDD
indicator light. .
3.4.1.2
Initialization
Disk initialization has great effect on the data security. Please think twice before you use.
3.4.1.3
Add hotspare disk
This series product support global hotspare disk. That is to say, the whole RAID groups share
hotspare disk. It only occupies the physical disk space when it is running. When any disk of the
RAID group is malfunction, the hotspare disk can automatically replace it.
In Figure 3-18, click add hot swap disk button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure
Here you can view idle disk list. You can click the select button to select the hot spare disk. Then
you can click save button to exit.
Note
One device can max have four hotspare disks.
The hotspare disk on the host can not replace the malfunction disk function from the
connected disk array enclosure and vice versa.
