Changing Pdm Settings; Transition - G-Technology G SPEED STUDIO XL Product Manual

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STUDIO
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Changing PDM Settings

To change PDM settings:
1. Click on the Background Activities icon.
2. Click the Settings button.
3. Click the PDM Rate drop-down menu and choose a rate:
• Low: Fewer system resources are allocated to PDM, leaving more resources for data read/
write operations.
• Medium: Balances system resources between PDM and data read/write operations.
• High: More system resources are available to PDM, fewer for data read/write operations.
• Highlight the current values in the block threshold fields and input new values. The reassigned
block threshold range is 1 to 512 blocks. Error block threshold range is 1 to 2048 blocks.
4. Click the Confirm button.
5. Click the X icon to close the background activities panel.

Transition

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 drive.
See Running a Transition on a Spare Drive.
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