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a global spare of all RGs.

“RS” Æ ReServe. The hard drive contains the RG

information but cannot be used. It may be caused
by an uncompleted RG set, or hot-plug of this disk

in the running time. In order to protect the data in
the disk, the status changes to reserve. It can be

reused after setting it to “FR” manually.

Vendor

Hard drive vendor.

Serial

Hard drive serial number.

Type

Hard drive type.
“SATA”
Æ SATA disk.
“SATA2” Æ SATA II disk.

Write cache

Hard drive write cache is enabled or disabled.

Standby

HDD auto spin-down to save power. The default value is

disabled.

PD operations description:

Set Free disk

Make the selected hard drive to be free for use.

Set Global

spare

Set the selected hard drive as global spare of all RGs.

Set Dedicated

spares

Set the hard drive as dedicated spare of selected RG.

Set property

Change the status of write cache and standby.
Write cache options:
“Enabled”
Æ Enable disk write cache.
“Disabled” Æ Disable disk write cache.
Standby options:
“Disabled”
Æ Disable spin-down.
“30 sec / 1 min / 5 min / 30 min” Æ Enable hard

drive auto spin-down to save power in the period of

time.

More

information

Show hard drive detail information.