Reserving Spare Drives - D-Link DSN-1100 X Stack User Manual

4.2.2 Reserving Spare Drives

A spare is a drive that is present in the system but normally unused until you need
additional capacity or another drive fails. At that time, the drive is substituted for the
failed drive.
To reserve spare drives:
1. In the Physical Storage View, select a drive in the Main Display.
2. Perform one of the following steps:
– On the Storage menu, click Reserve Drive as Spare.
Click Reserve Drive as Spare in the Drive Actions panel.
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Press the right mouse button and click Reserve Drive as Spare on the shortcut
–
menu.
A check mark appears next to Reserve Drive as Spare on the Storage menu, in the
Drive Actions panel, and on the shortcut menu to show that the selected drive is
designated as a spare.
3. To remove the selected drive as a spare, perform any of the steps in step 2 to
remove the check mark.
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Prior to initially using your system, you must reserve spare drives. After a
drive has been allocated to a volume, it can no longer be reserved as spare.
A drive can be reserved as a spare so long as no volumes have been created
on the drive. If you select a drive that has volumes, the Reserve Drive as
Spare option in step 2 will not be available.