Managing The Raid Configuration; Checking The Device Status - Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo User Manual

Managing the RAID Configuration

The initial/default configuration of your My Book Thunderbolt Duo device is as a striped
RAID 0 disk array for high-speed/maximum-storage performance. You can reconfigure
the device as either:
• A mirrored RAID 1 disk array for maximum-protection/reduced-storage
• JBOD individual drives that can be formatted differently for enhanced flexibility

Checking the Device Status

The WD Drive Utilities software provides a status indication of the device configuration
and each device drive.
To check the device status:
1.
Click Go > Applications > WD Drive Utilities to display the WD Drive Utilities screen
(see Figure 3 on page 9).
2. If you have more than one supported storage device connected to your computer,
select the one that you want to check.
3. Click RAID Management > Status to display the device status:
4. The status display shows:
• Current Configuration as either:
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Stripe
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Mirror
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Individual Drives
• RAID Status as either:
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Online
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Offline
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Degraded
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Failed
• For RAID configurations, Drive A and Drive B Status as either:
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Online—The drive is online and available
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Failed—The drive has failed
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Removed—The drive has been removed
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Standby—The drive is part of the RAID array but needs to be rebuilt
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Rebuilding—The drive is being rebuilt
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Unknown—The drive has some other undetermined status
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