User Manual
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Conguring G-SPEED Studio R
Managing Spare Drives
Spare drive management includes:
• Viewing a List of Spare Drives (see below)
• “Creating a Spare Drive Manually”
• “Making Spare Drive Settings”
• “Running Spare Check”
• “Deleting a Spare Drive”
• “Running a Transition”
Viewing a List of Spare Drives
To view a list of spare drives, perform the following action:
• From the Dashboard window, click Spare Drive.
Spare Drive information will display, including:
• ID – Spare0, Spare1, etc.
• Status - Normal, Rebuilding, or Failed/Missing icon
• Congurable Capacity – Usable capacity of the spare drive
• Physical Drive ID – ID number of the physical drive chosen for this spare
• Revertible – Yes or No
• Spare Type – Global or Dedicated
• Dedicated to Array – ID number of the disk array to which the spare is dedicated
Viewing Spare Drive Information
To view spare drive information:
1. Perform the following action:
• From the Dashboard window, click Spare Drive.
2. Mouse-over the spare drive you want, then click the View button.