Making Hot Spares - Hitachi 220H Bios Manual

Making hot spares

This section describes a procedure of making a hot spare (reserve drive).
Two types of hot spare are available: "global hot spares" can be used for all
virtual drives and "dedicated hot spares (local spares)" are dedicated to the
specific virtual drive.
Choose the type as required.
1. Click the physical drive you want to use as a hot spare from the list in the
Logical View / Physical View in the main menu.
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Before you make a hot spares, you need to build a virtual drive with

redundancy (RAID 1, 5, 6, 10).
For the disk array configured with HDDs, install HDD as reserve

drive; for the disk array configured with SSDs, install SSD as
reserve drive. Other type of disk array cannot be configured as
reserve drive.
You can select only a drive which status is "Unconfigured Good"
(unused).
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