Product specifications

Terminal Operation
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4.4.3.2 Assign Spare Drives
Figure 4 - 9: Assign Spare Drives Page
You can add a spare drive from the list of the unused drives. The spare
chosen here is a Local spare and will automatically replace any failed drive.
The controller will then rebuild data onto the replacement drive.
A logical drive composed in a non-redundancy RAID level (NRAID or
RAID 0) does not support spare drive rebuild.
4.4.3.3 Disk Reserved Space
The reserved space is a small section of disk space formatted for storing
array configuration and RAIDWatch program data. This item is for
display only—you cannot change the size of the reserved space.
4.4.3.4 Write Policy
Figure 4 - 10: Write Policy Sub-menu
This sub-menu allows you to set the caching mode for this specific logical
drive. “Default” is a neutral value that is coordinated with the subsystem’s
general caching mode setting shown in brackets in the Write Policy status.
4.4.3.5 Initialization Mode
Figure 4 - 11: Initialization Mode Sub-menu
This sub-menu allows you to see if the logical drive is immediately
available. If the online (default) mode is used, data can be written onto it
immediately and you may continue with array configuration, e.g.,