Running Spare Check; Deleting A Spare Drive; Running A Transition On A Spare Drive - G-Technology G Speed studio Product Manual

Configuring G-SPEED Studio R

Running Spare Check

Spare Check verifies the status of your spare drives. To run Spare Check:
1. From the Dashboard window, click the Spare Drive link. The list of spare drives will appear.
2. Mouse-over the spare drive you want, then click the Spare Check button.
3. Click the Confirm button.
Spare Check has no pause, resume or stop functions. When Spare Check completes, it
adds "Healthy" next to Spare Check Status on the Spare Drive information box.
After the "Spare Check completed" message appears, click the View button to see Spare
Check Status.

Deleting a Spare Drive

This action requires administrator or superuser privileges. To delete a spare drive:
1. From the Dashboard window, click the Spare Drive link. The list of spare drives will appear.
2. Mouse-over the spare drive you want, then click the Delete button.
3. In the Confirmation box, type the word "confirm" in the field provided, then click the
Confirm button.

Running a Transition on a Spare Drive

Transition is the process of replacing a revertible spare drive that is currently part of a disk
array with an unconfigured physical drive or a non-revertible spare. You must specify an
unconfigured physical drive of the same or larger capacity and same media type as the
revertible spare drive. Also see Transition.
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