NOTE

If the Reallocated Sector Count or Current Pending Sector of a hard disk drive is not zero, the status of the disk will show “Warning”. This warning is only used to alert the system administrator that there are bad sectors on the disk, and they should replace those disks as soon as possible.

RAID Information

From the Storage menu, choose the RAID item and the RAID List screen appears.

This screen lists the RAID volumes currently residing on the N7700. From this screen, you can get information about the status of your RAID volumes, as well as the capacities allocated for data, USB target, and iSCSI. There is also a graph which represents how the RAID volume is currently allocated.

To configure your RAID settings, press the

RAID Config button to go to the RAID

Configuration screen.

RAID Information

Item

Description

Select

Used to select the current RAID volume.

Master RAID

The RAID volume currently designated as the Master RAID

 

volume.

ID

ID of the current RAID volume.

 

NOTE: All RAID IDs must be unique.

RAID Level

Shows the current RAID configuration.

Status

Indicates status of the RAID. Can read either Healthy,

 

Degraded, or Damaged.

Disks Used

Hard disks used to form the current RAID volume.

Total Capacity

Total capacity of the current RAID.

Data Capacity

Indicates the used capacity and total capacity used by user

 

data.

USB Capacity

Indicates the capacity allocated to USB target mode.

iSCSI Capacity

Indicates the capacity allocated to iSCSI.

RAID Config

Press this to configure RAID volumes.

Space Allocation

Press this to adjust the space allocated for data, USB target

 

mode, and iSCSI.

RAID Configuration

On the RAID List screen, press the RAID Config button to go to the RAID Configuration screen. In addition to RAID disk information and status, this screen lets you make RAID configuration settings.

For more information on RAID, see Appendix

C: RAID Basics.

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