Logical Drive
A logical drive is a partition in a physical array of disks that is made up of contiguous data segments on the physical disks. A logical drive can consist of any of the following:
∙an entire physical array,
∙more than one entire physical array,
∙a part of an array,
∙parts of more than one array, or
∙a combination of any two of the above conditions.
Hot Swap
A hot swap is the manual replacement of a defective physical disk unit while the computer is still running. When a new drive has been installed, you must issue a command to rebuild the drive.
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