Changing Initialization Settings; Rebuild - G-Technology G SPEED STUDIO XL Product Manual

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Changing Initialization Settings

To change initialization settings:
1. Click on the Background Activities icon.
2. Click the Settings button.
3. Click the Logical Drive Initialization Rate drop-down menu and choose a rate:
• Low: Fewer system resources are allocated to initialization, leaving more resources for data
read/write operations.
• Medium: Balances system resources between initialization and data read/write operations.
• High: More system resources are allocated to initialization, fewer to data read/write
operations.
4. Click the Confirm button.
5. Click the X icon to close the background activities panel.

Rebuild

When you rebuild a disk array, you are actually using redundant data to rebuild the lost or
inaccessible data on one physical drive.
• When a physical drive in a disk array fails and a spare drive of adequate capacity is available,
the disk array begins to rebuild automatically using the spare drive.
• If there is no spare drive of adequate capacity, but the Auto Rebuild function is ENABLED, the
disk array will begin to rebuild automatically as soon as you remove the failed physical drive
and install an unconfigured physical drive in the same slot. See Making Rebuild Settings.
• If there is no spare drive of adequate capacity and the Auto Rebuild function is DISABLED,
you must replace the failed drive with an unconfigured physical drive, then perform a
Manual Rebuild.
See Rebuilding a Disk Array and Managing Spare Drives. Also see Disk Array Degraded / Logical
Drive Critical and Disk Array Offline / Logical Drive Offline.
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