Storage Management; Disks Information - Thecus N16000 Series User Manual

Storage Management

The Storage menu displays the status of storage devices installed in the Thecus IP
storage, and includes storage configuration options such as RAID and disk settings,
folder configuration, iSCSI and ISO Mount.

Disks Information

From the Storage menu, choose the Disks item and the Disks Information
screen appears. From here, you can see various items about installed SATA/SAS
hard disks. Blank lines indicate that hard disk is not currently installed in that
particular disk slot.
NOTE
Disks Information
Item
Disk No.
Capacity
Model
Firmware
Status
Bad Block scan
NOTE
S.M.A.R.T. Information
On the Disks Information screen, the status of each disk will be displayed in the
Status column. Clicking on an OK or Warning link will display the S.M.A.R.T
Information window for that particular disk.
You may also perform disk SMART test, simply to click "Test" to start with. The
result is only for reference and system will not take any action from its result.
• The screen shot below just example from Thecus IP Storage. The disk
slots can from 12 to 16 depend on the model of Thecus IP storage.
Description
Indicates disk location.
Shows the SATA hard disk capacity.
Displays the SATA hard disk model name.
Shows the SATA hard disk firmware version.
Indicates the status of the disk. Can read OK, Warning, or
Failed.
Yes to start scan Bad Block.
When the Status shows Warning, it usually means there are bad sectors on the
hard disk. It is shown only as a precaution and you should consider changing the
drives.
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