User Manual

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Table of Contents
Viewing Physical Drive SMART Log Information ..................... 59
Locating a Physical Drive .................................................................. 59
Changing Global Physical Drive Settings ................................... 60
Changing Individual Physical Drive Settings ............................ 60
Changing Physical Drive SMART Log Settings ......................... 61
Clearing a Stale or PFA Condition ................................................. 62
Running Media Patrol on Your Physical Drives ........................ 63
Managing Disk Arrays ........................................................................ 64
Viewing a List of Disk Arrays ...........................................................64
Viewing Disk Array Information ..................................................... 65
Creating a Disk Array Manually ...................................................... 65
To Create a Disk Array and Logical Drive .................................... 66
Creating a Disk Array and Logical Drive With the Wizard .... 67
Choosing Automatic Configuration ............................................. 68
Choosing Express Configuration ................................................... 69
Choosing Advanced Configuration .............................................. 71
Formatting Your Logical Drives ..................................................... 73
Changing Disk Array Settings ......................................................... 73
Locating a Disk Array ..........................................................................74
Deleting a Disk Array ......................................................................... 75
Preparing a Disk Array for Transport ............................................ 76
Rebuilding a Disk Array ..................................................................... 76
Pausing and Resuming a Rebuild .................................................. 78
Stopping a Rebuild ............................................................................. 78
Managing Logical Drives .................................................................. 78
Viewing a List of Logical Drives ..................................................... 79
Viewing Logical Drive Information ............................................... 79
Viewing Logical Drive Statistics .....................................................80
Changing Logical Drive Settings ................................................... 81
Viewing Logical Drive Check Tables ............................................. 82
Creating a Logical Drive Manually ................................................ 82
Formatting Your Logical Drive ....................................................... 84
Locating a Logical Drive ...................................................................84
Deleting a Logical Drive ................................................................... 85
Initializing a Logical Drive ................................................................ 85
Pausing and Resuming an Initialization ...................................... 86
Stopping an Initialization ................................................................. 86
Redundancy Check on a Logical Drive ........................................ 87
Pausing and Resuming a Redundancy Check .............................8
Stopping a Redundancy Check ...................................................... 87
Migrating a Logical Drive ................................................................. 88
Running PDM on a Logical Drive ................................................... 89
Pausing and Resuming PDM ........................................................... 89
Stopping PDM ...................................................................................... 89
Managing Spare Drives .....................................................................90
Viewing a List of Spare Drives.........................................................90
Viewing Spare Drive Information ..................................................90
Creating a Spare Drive Manually ................................................... 91
Changing Spare Drive Settings ...................................................... 92
Running Spare Check......................................................................... 93
Deleting a Spare Drive....................................................................... 93
Running a Transition on a Spare Drive ........................................ 93
Running a Transition .......................................................................... 94
Pausing and Resuming a Transition ............................................. 94
Stopping, Pausing or Resuming a Transition ............................ 94
Formatting Logical Drives ................................................................ 95
G-SPEED Studio R Software With Default Settings ................. 95
G-SPEED Studio R Utility With Custom Settings ...................... 96
Disk Utility .............................................................................................. 97
Spare Drives .......................................................................................... 98
Running a Transition .......................................................................... 99
Maintenance for Your Drive
Replace a Failed Disk Drive ........................................................... 102
Initialize Drive for Mac .................................................................... 104
Restore the Drive Icon ..................................................................... 107
Reformat With Partitions ................................................................ 109
Appendix
RAID Levels Explained .................................................................... 114
Support & Warranty
Technical Support ............................................................................. 116
Limited Warranty ................................................................................117
Copyright ............................................................................................. 119