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Gateway ADAC ULTRA2 S466 User Manual

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Chapter 2 Introduction to RAID

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Logical Drive

A logical drive is a partition in a physical array of disks
that is made up of contiguous data segments on the
physical disks. A logical drive can consist of any of the
following:

an entire physical array,

more than one entire physical array,

a part of an array,

parts of more than one array, or

a combination of any two of the above conditions.

Hot Swap

A hot swap is the manual replacement of a defective
physical disk unit while the computer is still running. When
a new drive has been installed, you must issue a command
to rebuild the drive.