Drive Failure Management - Asus PCI-DA2100 User Manual

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3.2

Drive Failure Management

3.2.1 Global and Local Spare Drive
Local Spare Drive
LS
1
Logical Drive
Assigns one Local Spare
Drive to a logical drive
Global Spare Drive does not only serve one specified logical drive.
When a member drive from any of the logical drive fails, the Global
Spare Drive will join that logical drive and automatically starts to
rebuild.
Global Spare Drive
GS
1
3
Logical Drive 0
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2
3
2 1
Logical Drive 1
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Local Spare Drive is a standby
drive assigned
specified logical drive. When a
member drive of this specified
logical drive fails, the Local Spare
Drive becomes a member drive and
automatically starts to rebuild.
X
Local 1
Spare
Drive
LS
Logical Drive
Global Spare Drive
GS
2 1
4
Logical Drive 2
to serve
When one member
drive fails, the Local
2
Spare Drive joins the
logical drive and
automatically starts
to rebuild.
3
Global Spare Drives serve
any logical drives.
2
3
one