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Fault-tolerance features – American Megatrends MegaRAID Express 500 User Manual

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Chapter 4 Features

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Fault-Tolerance Features

The MegaRAID Express 500 fault-tolerance features are:

automatic failed drive detection,

automatic failed drive rebuild with no user intervention required,

hot swap manual replacement without bringing the system down, and

SAF-TE compliant enclosure management.

Detect Failed Drive The MegaRAID Express 500 firmware automatically detects and rebuilds

failed drives. This can be done transparently with hot spares.

Hot Swap

MegaRAID Express 500 supports the manual replacement of a disk unit in the
RAID subsystem without system shutdown.