Swapping Hard Disks; Transferring Hard Disks To A New Storage System - Intel SS4000-E - Entry Storage System NAS Server User Manual

Adding or Replacing Hard Disks

Swapping Hard Disks

If you are using RAID 5 + spare or RAID 10, you can move the hard disks from one slot
to another whether or not the storage system is running. However, if you do this when the
storage system is running, you can swap only two disks, and you must restart the system
after you swap the disks. If you swap the disks when the storage system is not running,
you can swap all four disks, and the system functions as it previously did when you restart
it.
Note: For RAID 5 + spare, if you swap the disks when the storage system is running, one of the
swapped disks must be the spare.
For RAID 10, the swapped disks must be in different pairs. For example, you can swap
disks 1 and 3 or disks 2 and 4, but not disks 1 and 2, as those are members of the same
pair.
If the storage system is running when you swap the disks, the Disk Change Notification
page appears as shown in the preceding section. Click Shut Down and then restart the
system.
For all other disk configurations (linear, RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5), you can swap the
hard disks only when the storage system is powered off, and you can swap all four disks.

Transferring Hard Disks to a New Storage System

If your storage system unit fails but the hard disks themselves are viable, you can transfer
your existing hard disks to a new storage system, thereby preserving all your existing data.
To transfer hard disks to a new storage system:
1. Shut down both the old unit and the new unit.
Caution:
2. Transfer the hard disks to the new unit.
3. Connect the new unit to your network and power on the new unit.
4. Access the Manager for the new unit as described in
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As long as the new unit is in the same subnet as the old unit, you can access the
Manager using the same procedure you used previously. However, if the new unit is in
a different subnet, you might have to install the Console on a computer in the same
subnet as the storage system and use the Console to access it.
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If you do not shut down the new unit before you insert the hard disks, you
are prompted to re-initialize the disks. If you do this, all the data on your
hard disks is lost.
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