Failing a Drive

Use this option to fail a selected drive or drives.

Caution:

Conditions in which data loss will occur:

Conditions in which a loss of data redundancy will occur:

How to Fail a Drive or Drives

1
Select one or more drives in the Physical View; then, select either the Drive >> Fail pull-down menu option, or Fail from the right-mouse pop-up menu.

Result: The Confirm Fail Drive dialog is displayed.
2
Select Yes.

Result: The drives fail and the dialog closes. The drive in the Physical View is shown in the Needs Attention state in the selected mode.

Note: If you are going to remove the drive, make sure at least 30 seconds have elapsed.

If this drive was assigned to an array, then the Logical View changes are shown in the table below.

If... Then...
The logical drive was Optimal before the drive was Failed The logical drive changes to a Degraded state in the Logical View.
The logical drive was Degraded before the drive was Failed The logical drive changes to a Fail state in the Logical View.