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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.
Parameter Setting – This menu includes various controller related settings and features.
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