Designating A Spare Drive; Deleting A Raid Volume; Viewing An External Usb Drive Or Memory Stick; Formatting An External Usb Drive Or Memory Stick - Promise Technology SMARTSTOR NS4300N Product Manual

Managing RAID Volumes

This category includes the following topics:
• Viewing RAID Volume Status (page 107)
• Viewing Disk Drive Information (page 108)
• Creating a RAID Volume (page 108)
• Designating a Spare Drive (page 109)
• Migrating a RAID Volume (page 109)
• Deleting a RAID Volume (page 110)
• Viewing an External USB Drive or Memory Stick (page 111)
• Formatting an External USB Drive or Memory Stick (page 111)
Viewing RAID Volume Status
RAID status refers to the disk drives on your SmartStor and how they are
arranged into a RAID Volume.
To view the status of your RAID Volume:
1. In the Tree, click the + beside the RAID & File System icon.
2. Click the RAID Management icon.
The RAID Status tab displays the current RAID system and its status:
• RAID Name – The name of your RAID, automatically assigned when it
was created
• RAID Level – RAID 0, 1, 5, or 10, specified when it was created
• Capacity – Data capacity of the RAID Volume in GB
• RAID Status – Functional is normal. Critical means a disk drive has
failed. Offline means you cannot access your data.
Critical and offline RAIDs require you to take corrective action. See
"Replacing a Failed Disk Drive" on page 139.
• Action Status – Idle is normal. Rebuilding means the RAID Volume is
being rebuilt after a disk drive failure. Migrating means the RAID
Volume is adding a disk drive or changing RAID levels.
• Background Activity – None is normal. Running means a background
activity is in progress.
• Format Status – Shows progress of the current Background Activity as
a percentage.
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