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Chapter 5. McBIOS Configuration
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5.5.6 More System Functions
To set the “More System Functions”, move the cursor bar to themain menu and
select the “More System Functions” item and then press Enter key. The “More
System Functions” menu will show multiple items. Move the cursor bar to an
item, then press Enter key to select the desired unction.
5.5.6.1 Smart Option For HDD
This option is used to increases the reliability of SSDs/HDDs by automatically
copying data from a drive with potential to fail to a designated hot spare or newly
inserted drive. The options are: “Failed The Drive”, “Failed The Drive If Hot
Spare Exist”, and “Alert Only”.
Failed The Drive : controllers kill off the SMART fail drive immediately.
Failed The Drive If Hot Spare Exist :
controllers kill off the SMART fail disk if hot spare dive is existed.
Alert Only : it will trigger alert when there happens a SMART fail drive.
5.5.6.2 Smart Polling Interval
Besides the scheduled volume check, user can define the Smart Pulling Interval
to pull the SMART status of each disk. The default is “on demand”.
User can schedule every certain period of time interval to pull the SMART status
of each disk. When SMART pulling is executed, disk activity will be temporally
halted until the SMART parameter reading is finished. That is why you don’t
want to set the Interval too frequent. What to use is up to the users to decide
based on their applications and experiment results.