Drive Status - Lenovo px6-300d User Manual

5. Check Enable periodic consistency check to enable a monthly parity or mirror consistency
check. The check helps to prevent a single drive failure from becoming a two-drive failure,
resulting in data loss. The check runs for several hours and can affect performance of the px6-
300d. If you do not want to run the check, uncheck this option.
6. Check Use available drives as hot spares to allow unused drives to become part of a RAID-
protected storage pool. If a drive in a Storage Pool fails, all the data on that drive can be mirrored
to the hot spare drive.
7. Click Apply to save your changes.
The Drive Management page displays a table that provides the following information about existing
Storage Pools.
Name — The name of the Storage Pool.
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Protection — The type of protection assigned to the Storage Pool.
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Capacity — The total amount of storage in the Storage Pool.
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Allocated/Available — Allocated is the space allocated to share volumes and iSCSI volumes.
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Available is the difference between capacity and used.

Drive Status

An image on the Drive Management page provides information on the drive status of your px6-300d. The
image displays the physical layout of drives and the drive slot numbers. If a drive has a circled letter, it is a
member of a Storage Pool. If you hover your mouse over a drive in the image, the ToolTip displays the
drive model, size, and status, including if the drive is failing.
If you hover your mouse on either a Storage Pool name in the table or on a drive in the Storage Pool image,
all drives in the Storage Pool are highlighted.
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