Spare Drives; Viewing Spare Drives; Creating A Spare Drive - AMD M3A78-EMH HDMI User Manual

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Spare Drives

• Viewing Spare Drives (below)
• Creating a Spare Drive (page 90)
• Deleting a Spare Drive (page 91)
A spare drive is a physical drive designated to function as a hot spare drive. A hot
spare drive automatically replaces a failed physical drive.
You can also set the Controller to rebuild a logical drive from a Free physical
drive. See "Making Controller Settings" on page 51 and "Rebuilding a Logical
Drive" on page 77 for more information on how spare drives work.

Viewing Spare Drives

Spare Drive View provides a list of all spare drives currently on the Host PC.
To see a list of your spare drives, click Spare Drive View in Tree View.
From this screen, you can view the current Spare Drives and click the tabs to
access the Create and Delete features.

Creating a Spare Drive

To create a spare drive:
1. Click Spare Drive View in Tree View.
2. Click the Create tab in Management View.
3. From the Spare Drive dropdown menu, choose one of the following options.
• Global Spare – This spare drive can be used by any logical drive.
• Logical Drive – The name of the logical drive to which this spare drive
will be assigned or dedicated.
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