Spare Option

 

With a spare disk, you can enhance the security of RAID 1 (Mirroring) array. If one of the disks in the array fails, the spare disk will automatically take over.

You can open the Edit Spare window to add or remove a Spare Disk. There are three ways to open the Edit Spare window.

1. Right-click the RAID 1 array on the array tree will pop up a menu. Select Edit Spare on the menu.

2. Click the menu Configuration->Edit Spare.

3. Click the Spare button on the tool bar.

 

Note: When you create a RAID 1 array, you can select the Use a spare disk option to specify a spare disk.

 

 

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