Manage Your Raid Array; Raid Spare Pool - HighPoint RocketRAID 4520 Series User Manual

4. Once formatted, the volume will be available for use.

Manage your RAID array

The following features allow you to monitor and maintain your arrays to prevent any
critical failures from occurring:
•
Spare Pool (pg.36)
• Email Notifications (pg.37)
•
SMART Monitoring (pg.40)
•
Health Inspector Scheduling (pg.41)

RAID Spare Pool

Physical drives marked as a spare will automatically be added to a redundant RAID
array (RAID levels 1, 1/0, 5, and 6) whenever there is a disk failure. Enabling this
feature minimizes the chances of data loss since it reduces the time an array is in
critical status.
Add/Remove Spare
Using WebGUI:
1. Log in WebGUI.
2. Click Logical.
3. Click Spare Pool.
4. Check the box for the disk you want as a spare from Available Disks.
5. Click Add Spare.
Disks added to the spare pool will show under Spare Pool and can be removed by
checking the disk checkbox from Spare Pool> Click Remove Spare.
Using RocketRAID BIOS:
1. Navigate to the disk panel (Press ALT + W, then press 1).
2. Use keyboard arrow keys to select desired disk.
3. Press enter to confirm each selection.
4. Press ALT + D to open disk tab.
5. Select Toggle Spare.
Disks added to the spare pool will show under Spare Pool and can be removed by
checking the disk checkbox from Spare Pool> Click Remove Spare.
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