Product specifications

S.M.A.R.T. Configuration
9-7
Detect and Perpetual Clone
When the S.M.A.R.T. function is enabled, the controller will send a
command to enable all drives' S.M.A.R.T. function. If a drive
predicts a problem, the controller will report the problem in an
event log. The controller will clone the drive if a Dedicated/Global
spare is available. The drive with predicted errors will not be taken
off-line, and the clone drive will still act as a standby drive.
If the drive with predicted errors fails, the clone drive will take over
immediately. If the problematic drive is still working and another
drive in the same logical drive fails, the clone drive will resume the
role of a standby spare and start to rebuild the failed drive
immediately. This prevents a fatal drive error if yet another drive
should fail.
Detect and Clone + Replace
The controller will enable all drives' S.M.A.R.T. function. If a drive
predicts a problem, the controller will report the problem in the
form of an event log. The controller will then clone the problematic
drive to a standby spare and take the problematic drive offline as
soon as the cloning process is completed.
NOTE:
• If you are using drives of different brands in your RAID system, as long as
they are ANSI-SCSI Informational Exception Control (IEC) document
X3T10/94-190-compatible, there should not be any problems working with
the controller/subsystem.
9.2 Configuration Procedure
Enabling the S.M.A.R.T. Feature
Follow the procedure below to enable S.M.A.R.T. on all drives.
Step 1. First, enable the “Periodic Drive Check Time” function.
In \View and Edit Configuration Parameters\Drive-
side Parameters\Periodic Drive Check Time, choose a
time interval.