Dell NX046 Creating a Spare Hard Drive, Rebuilding a Degraded RAID Level 1 or 5 Configuration

8On the Select Member Hard Drive screen, double-click the two or three drives to select the member drives that you want to use in the configuration, and click Next.

9On the Specify Volume Size screen, select the volume size you want, and click Next.

NOTICE: In step 10, all data contained on the member drive will be removed.

10Click Finish to start migrating, or click Back to make changes. You can use your computer normally during migration process.

Creating a Spare Hard Drive

NOTICE: A spare hard drive must be at least the same size as the larger of the two drives in the RAID configuration that it supports. Otherwise, the spare hard drive will not function. The RAID utility will not notify you if you fail to select a large enough drive.

A spare hard drive may be created with a RAID level 1 configuration. The spare hard drive will not be recognized by the operating system, but you will be able to see the spare drive from within Disk Manager or the Intel RAID Option ROM utility. When a member of the RAID level 1 configuration is broken, the computer automatically rebuilds the mirror configuration using the spare hard drive as the broken member’s replacement.

To mark a drive as a spare hard drive:

1Click the Start button and point to Programs→ Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to launch the Intel Storage Utility.

2Right-click the hard drive you want to mark as a spare hard drive.

3Click Mark as Spare.

To remove spare marking from a spare hard drive:

1Right-click the spare hard-drive icon.

2Click Reset Hard Drive to Non-RAID

Rebuilding a Degraded RAID Level 1 or 5 Configuration

If your computer does not have a spare hard drive, and the computer has reported a degraded RAID level 1 or 5 volume, you can manually rebuild the computer’s redundancy mirror to a new hard drive:

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