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Physical Drive Menu,
Change Status Choose this option after you have selected a physical drive. The following
options appear:
Option
Make Online Choose this option to bring the selected physical drive online.
Fail Drive Choose this option to take the selected physical drive offline.
Spin Up Choose this option to allow a period of time for the selected physical
drive to reach operational speed. This usually takes a few seconds.
Spin Down Choose this option to allow a period of time for the selected physical
drive to stop spinning before taking the drive offline. This usually takes a
few seconds.
Make Hot Spare Choose this option to designate the selected drive as a hot spare. Hot
spares are automatically brought online to replace failed disk drives. Hot
spares are physical drives that are powered up along with the RAID
drives and usually are placed in a standby state.
Hot spares can be used for RAID levels 1, 3 and 5. Click on the drive
icon of the drive to be made the hot spare.
spare must have the same or greater capacity than the other
drives in the RAID array.
Properties Choose this option to display the properties of the selected physical drive. A
screen such as the following appears:
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Description
The drive to be made a hot
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