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CreAting A spAre drive mAnuAlly

This feature creates a spare drive only. You can also use the Wizard to create a disk array with logical

drives and spare drives at the same time. See Spare Drives for more information.

For more information on settings options, see “Spare Drives” on page 92. To create a spare drive:

1. From the Dashboard window, click the Spare Drive link.

2. Click the Create Spare Drive button.

3. For each of the following items, accept the default or change the settings as required:

• Check the Revertible box if you want a revertible spare drive.

A revertible spare drive returns to its spare drive assignment after you replace the failed

physical drive in the disk array and run the Transition function.

• Type (choose spare type)

• Global – Can be used by any disk array

• Dedicated to a disk array. Click the radio button next to the disk array to which this spare

drive is dedicated.

• Media Type If you have more than one type of physical drive installed (SSD and HDD for

example) choose the type of drive for the spare.

4. In the Create Spare Drive diagram, click a drive to choose it for your spare.

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below the diagram.

5. Click the Submit button to continue.

If you are done creating spare drives, click the Finish button. To create another spare drive, click

the Create More button.

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