System information

Using the RAID GUI
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Modify: Select a hard disk and click this button to enter the settings screen to enable or disable the disk cache and the
disk identify function.
G.Spare: To add or remove global spare disks, click this button to enter the settings screen.
• Detailed hard disk information
Click to display a complete list of hard disk information. You will see the following details.
2.6.2 JBOD
This feature allows you to create, delete, and modify your JBOD settings.
• Create JBOD disks
Click Create to add a new JBOD disk, where up to a maximum of 16 JBOD disks can be created. Specify the following
options for the configuration.
• Delete JBOD disks
Select the JBOD disk(s) you want to delete and click Delete. To delete all LUNs of jbdx, check the ‘Force to delete LUN
mapping(s)’ box. All access to the JBOD will be stopped.
Note
1. When the selected hard disk is not in the on-line state, the Disk Cache field will not be
displayed.
2. If a hard disk belongs to a disk group, you cannot change its disk cache. To modify it, refer to
2.6.3 Disk groups.
3. If the hard disk belongs to a disk group, you can check the ‘Apply to all members of this DG’
option to apply the disk identify setting to all the member disks in a disk group.
4. The Disk Identify can let controller correctly identify a hard disk even when they are moved
from one slot to another at system power off time, and the configurations for the disks can be
restored.
• HDD ID
• UUID
• Physical Capacity (KB)
• Physical Type
• Transfer Speed
• Disk Cache Setting
• Disk Cache Status
• Firmware Version
• Serial Number
• WWN
• NCQ Supported
• NCQ Status
• Command Queue Depth
• Standard Version Number
• Reserved Size of Remap Bad Sectors
• Bad Sectors Detected
• Bad Sectors Reallocated
• Disk Identify
JBOD ID Select a JBOD ID from the drop-down menu.
Name Use the system default name as jbdx. ‘x’ is the JBOD identifier.
OR
Uncheck the ‘Use system default name’ box and enter the name in the Name
field. The maximum name length is 63 bytes.
Member Disk Select a corresponding hard disk to be used for JBOD from the drop-down menu.
Preferred Controller This option is only available when the redundant-controller system is in use. Select
the preferred controller to be in charge of managing and accessing the JBOD disk.