Managing And Customizing Your My Book Thunderbolt Duo Device; Checking Device Health - Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo User Manual

Managing and Customizing Your My Book
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Thunderbolt Duo Device
This chapter includes the following topics:

Checking Device Health

Managing the RAID Configuration
Erasing the Device Drives
Registering the Device
Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image
Safely Dismounting the Device Drives
The WD Drive Utilities software (see Figure 3 on page 9) makes it easy for you to manage
and customize your storage device for the best possible performance:
• Diagnostics—Run diagnostics and status checks to make sure your device drives
are working properly.
• RAID Management—Check the operational status or change the device drive
configuration.
• Drive Erase—Erase all of the data on the drives.
• Registration—Register your device to receive free technical support during the
warranty period and find out about software updates, product enhancements, and
price discount opportunities.
On the WD Drive Utilities screen:
IF you want to . . .
Run drive diagnostics and status
checks,
Check the RAID status or change the
configuration of the device drives,
Erase the drives so you can retrieve
the space and start over,
Register the device to receive free
technical support during the warranty
period and keep up-to-date on the
latest WD products,
Checking Device Health
The WD Drive Utilities software provides three diagnostic tools to help make sure that
your device is performing well. Run the following tests if you are concerned that your
device is not operating properly:
• S.M.A.R.T. Status Check
S.M.A.R.T. is a failure-prediction function that continuously monitors key internal
performance attributes of the device drives. A detected increase in drive
temperature, noise, or read/write errors, for example, can provide an indication
that the drive is approaching a serious failure condition. With advanced warning,
you could take precautionary measures, like moving your data to another device,
before a failure occurs.
The result of a S.M.A.R.T. status check is a pass or fail evaluation of the drives'
condition.
THEN click . . .
Diagnostics
RAID Management
Drive Erase
Registration
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AND see . . .
"Checking Device Health" in
the next section.
"Managing the RAID
Configuration" on page 12
"Erasing the Device Drives"
on page 16.
"Registering the Device" on
page 18.