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Status: Displays general operational status of the disk. Possible states are Good, Defect, and
Fail.
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1: Displays the RAID status of the disk. Possible states are:
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RD – RAID Disk. The drive is part of a RAID that is currently online.
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FR – Free disk. The drive is available for use in a volume group, or to be marked as a
spare.
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DS – Dedicated spare. The drive is a dedicated spare of a specific volume group. This
option cannot be selected until at least one volume group has been created.
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GS – Global spare. The drive is a global spare of all VGs.
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RS – Reserve. The drive contains VG information but cannot be used. This generally
indicates that the drive is part of a RAID set that is missing components.
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2: Displays RAID rebuild status of the disk. Possible states are “R” – Rebuild, or “M” – migration.
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Speed: The maximum speed of the drive. 1.5 Gbps indicates a SATA1 drive, 3.0 Gbps indicates
a SATA2 drive, and unknown indicates that the drive does not support either of the two levels.
Auto spindown: If auto spindown is enabled, after a set amount of time (30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes,
or 30 minutes) of inactivity, RTX-UR will spin down the hard drives to save power. The drives will be spun
up again when the RTX-UR is accessed. Auto spindown is disabled by default. To enable auto
spindown, click the hyperlink “disabled.” On the following screen, select the desired auto spindown time
from the dropdown box:
Click the Confirm button.
5.5.2 Volume Group (VG)
The Volume Group screen displays information about all existing volume groups. To create a usable
RAID set, you will first need to create a new Volume Group. Click the Create button.
This brings up the VG creation screen. Enter a name for the new VG in the first field then select your
desired RAID type from the dropdown box. WiebeTech recommends RAID5 for maximum performance,
capacity, and security. For more information on RAID, see Chapter 1: Introduction to RAID. Click Select
PD to select the drives that will be added to the VG. Note: Drives must be marked as Free Disks (FR)
before they can be added to a VG. To set drives to Free Disks, see section 5.5.1.
All available Free disks will be displayed. Check the drives that you wish to add to the VG, then click
Confirm.
