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G SPEED™eS PRO | Maintenance for Your Drive |
Replace a Failed Disk Drive
The ATTO R680 RAID controller continually monitors the health of each of the disk drives in G-SPEED eS Pro. In the event of a disk failure, you will be notified based on the notifi- cations settings you entered in Set Up Alert Notifications. The ATTO ConfigTool service will report the failed drive and help you locate its physical position in the G-SPEED eS Pro enclosure.
Mute the Alarm
If you have set up ‘audible alarms’, the ATTO RAID control- ler will beep when a drive has failed, or other critical event has occurred. To mute the audible alarm, click on the Alert
icon 
in the System Notification area of your desktop. Select ‘Mute Audible Alert’.
Note About Drive Failure
If the G-SPEED eS Pro was configured in RAID 1 or RAID 5 mode, a drive failure does not necessarily result in data loss. However, the array is now in a degraded and unprotected state; the failed drive should be replaced as soon as possible to avoid data loss.
If G-SPEED eS Pro was configured in RAID 6 mode, up to two drives can fail with no loss of data. Replace any failed drive as soon as possible.
Follow the steps on the next page to identify and replace a failed drive.