Adding/Remove Spare Disks; Settings - HighPoint RocketRAID 600L User Manual

5.6 Add/Remove Spare Disks
This Add/Remove Spare command is used to assign a hard disk to act as a Spare Disk. Spare Disks are used
to automatically rebuild Redundant RAID arrays (RAID 1, 5, 10) in the case of disk failure. As with creating
RAID arrays, disks must be initialized before they can be used as spares. To set a hard disk to act as a
Spare Disk, use the arrow keys to select the target disk from the list of initialized disks, and press Enter
key. To remove the Spare Disk setting from a hard disk, highlight the spare disk, and press Enter key.
Generally, single disks are designated to act as spares (disks that are not configured into RAID arrays).
However, in some instances, disks that are members of RAID arrays may also be designated to act as a
spare. If the disks in question are part of a RAID array that did not utilize the full available capacity at the
time of creation, these disks may be used as spares. For example: a RAID 0 array was created between two
200GB hard disks, but only 200GB of space (out of a grand total of 400GB), was assigned to that array. In
this example, 200GB of disk space remains unallocated. This unallocated space would allow these disks to
be set as spares for a separate redundant array that falls into the same capacity range (200GB).

5.7 Settings

To access the Settings menu, highlight the Settings command from the toolbar, and press Enter key. There
are Select Boot Device and Parameter Setting options in the menu.
Select Boot Device: Select which disk or array will act as the boot disk, if the motherboard BIOS
instructs the card to act as the boot device.
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