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Hot Spare
One or more disk drives are unused during normal operation and are configured to be a spare. If an active
drive in a Safe volume fails, the data on the remaining disk is duplicated on to the Hot Spare to regain
redundancy. All Safe volumes can have a designated Hot Spare (Safe, Safe+Fast, and Safe+Big).
Volume
A virtual or logical disk comprised of one or more physical disks. Once you create a volume, the operating
system uses and maintains the volume as if it were a single physical disk. This allows software to overcome
restrictions imposed by physical disk drives.
Daemon
Component of the Biggest S2S Manager responsible for status tracking and Safe volume rebuilds. See
4.4.5.
Manage Client Connection to the Daemon
, for further details regarding the daemon.
Setting Up Your Biggest S2S
ImpOrTANT INfO:
Your LaCie Biggest
S2S comes preconfigured in Fast mode, similar to
RAID 0. For more information about RAID lev-
els, see chapter 9,
Understanding RAID and Big-
gest S2S Storage Policies
.
ImpOrTANT INfO:
The disks shipped with
the LaCie Biggest S2S are formatted HFS+. To
use the drives with Windows operating systems or
for cross-platform use between Mac and PC, the
drives must be reformatted. For more information,
see section 8.2.
File System Formats
.
ImpOrTANT INfO:
The Advanced Con-
figuration Mode extends the allowable number of
volumes created to five drives. The perfomance in
this case is equivelent to that of a four drive vol-
ume. Also, refer to the note on the following page
concerning the partition limitation for Windows
users.
