Spare Drives - G-Technology G SPEED STUDIO XL Product Manual

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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
Media Type (type of physical drive)
• Hard disk drive (HDD)
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