Failing a Drive

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Use this option to fail a selected drive or multiple drives.

Caution:

Procedure

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

Type Yes and select OK or Enter.

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

Note: If you are going to remove the drive, wait at least 30 seconds before doing so.

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 Failed state in the Logical View.

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Managing Drives