User Manual

MAKing initiAlizAtion SettingS

To make initialization settings:

1. Click on the Background Activities icon.

2. Click the Settings button.

3. Click the Logical Drive Initialization Rate dropdown menu and choose a rate:

• Low – Fewer system resources to Initialization, more to data read/write operations.

• Medium – Balances system resources between Initialization and data read/write

operations.

• High – More system resources to Initialization, fewer to data read/write operations.

4. Click the Conrmbutton.

5. Click the X icon to close the background activities panel.

rebuild

When you rebuild a disk array, you are actually rebuilding the data on one physical drive.

• When a physical drive in a disk array fails and a spare drive of adequate capacity is available, the

disk array begins to rebuild automatically using the spare drive.

• If there is no spare drive of adequate capacity, but the Auto Rebuild function is ENABLED, the disk

array begins to rebuild automatically as soon as you remove the failed physical drive and install an

unconguredphysicaldriveinthesameslot.See“MakingRebuildSettings”onpage34.

• If there is no spare drive of adequate capacity and the Auto Rebuild function is DISABLED, you

mustreplacethefaileddrivewithanunconguredphysicaldrive,thenperformaManual Rebuild.

See “RebuildingaDiskArray”onpage68 and ”ManagingSpareDrives”onpage82. Also see

“Disk Array Degraded / Logical Drive Critical” on page 129 and “DiskArrayOfine/LogicalDrive

Ofine”onpage130.

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