Section 4 - Configuration

Disk Management

Hard Drive Configuration

To setup the Hard Drive RAID configuration of your ShareCenter, click on the Management tab and then the Disk Management icon. Select the Hard Drive Configuration menu item on the left of the window. This menu will allow you to set the RAID type and format your hard drives.

Hard Drive

Your ShareCenterhard drives can be

Configuration:

configured here and formatted in various RAID

 

configurations.

Current Raid Type:

If the drives are already formatted the RAID

 

configuration will be displayed here.

Set RAID type and

Click on this button to launch a wizard that

Reformat:

allows you to select the RAID configuration

 

and format the drives.

Auto-Rebuild

If you have chosen RAID 1 as the configuration

Configuration:

option, then set the Auto-Rebuild function

 

here using the radio buttons.

Enable Auto-Rebuild:

Enabling Auto-Rebuild will rebuild a failed

 

RAID 1 drive when a new drive has replaced

 

the degraded one.

Disable Auto-Rebuild:

If you do not want to automatically rebuild

 

drives after a failure when using the RAID 1

 

functionality then you can check this option.

 

Note: You can still rebuild a drive using the RAID

 

1 functionality however you must initiate the

 

rebuild manually.

Manual Rebuild Now:

If Auto-Rebuild is disabled then you can use

 

the Manual Rebuild option by clicking this

 

button.

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