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RAIDXpert User Manual
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When enabled, and a hot spare drive is not available, a critical or
degraded logical drive will rebuild itself automatically when you replace
the failed physical drive with a new one. See page 84.
• Automatic Rebuild Policy – Selects which physical drive to use as a
hot spare:
• A spare drive only. See page 89.
• The free portion of a physical drive whose other portion is assigned
to a logical drive. Or a spare drive.
A logical drive cannot use the free portion of its own physical drive
to rebuild itself. It can only use the free portion of a physical drive
belonging to a different logical drive for this purpose.
• Buzzer – When enabled, the Controller’s buzzer will sound to report a
problem.
• S.M.A.R.T. Status – SMART, an acronym for Self-Monitoring Analysis
and Reporting Technology, is a feature of the physical drive software.
When enabled, the SATA controller polls the physical drives for SMART
information and reports it to you.
• S.M.A.R.T. Check Polling Interval – The interval of time in seconds
when the SATA controller polls the physical drives for SMART
information. 120 seconds is the default.
4. Click the Submit button.
Your settings take effect immediately.
Viewing Controller Scheduled Activities
To view scheduled background activities:
1. Click Controller in Tree View.
2. Click the Schedule tab in Management View.