Spare Drives - G-Technology G Speed studio Product Manual

4. Change your Volume Scheme, Volume Information and Options settings, then click
the Apply button.
For Macintosh computers, the default GPT Format partition and the default Journaled
HFS+ format are recommended.
5. In the Confirmation dialog box, click the Partition button.
When Disk Utility has finished the partition and format operation, new removable drive
icons, each representing one logical drive, will appear on your desktop and your logical
drives will be ready to use.

Spare Drives

A spare drive is a physical drive that you designate to automatically replace the failed
physical drive in a disk array. See Creating a Spare Drive Manually.
G-Technology's general recommendation is to acquire at least one spare drive and
configure the spare(s) as a global revertible spare drive(s).
Options
There are several options you can specify for a spare drive:
System Options
• Revertible – A revertible spare returns to its spare drive assignment after you
replace the failed physical drive in the disk array and run the Transition function.
• Media Patrol – By default, Media Patrol runs on spare drives unless you disable it.
Spare Type
• Global – Can be used by any disk array
• Dedicated – Can be used only by the assigned disk array
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