LaCie Professional Server
Technical Brief: RAID
Fig. 16
When a replacement drive is inserted into the empty slot, Windows
assigns the next available number,
Certainly, drive renumbering is not a problem that will impact the
integrity of the data. However, it may become difficult to manage
and troubleshoot due to the irregular order of the disks. Consider
that, in this example,
Disk 0
the mirrored System volume, disrupting the order seen earlier in Disk
Management
(Fig.
10).
Disk 4
(Fig. 16
and
Fig.
will have to be paired with
Disk 4
17, b).
for
a
0
LAN 1
LAN 1
Fig. 17
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b
c
e
d
4
1
2
LAN 2
USB
USB
USB
USB
VGA
POWER
eSATA
eSATA
Disk Numbering
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