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5.3.2 Disk Group Screens
Use the Disk Group screen to configure and manage disk groups. Click Storage Manager > Internal
Storage > Disk Group screen to open the screen as shown.
Figure 56 Disk Group
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 30 Disk Group
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Create Click this to format internal hard disks and create a new disk group. All data on the disk(s) will
be lost.
Note: This button is not available while the NAS is creating, deleting, or changing the
RAID type of any volume or disk group.
Manage Select a volume and click Manage to edit, repair, or expand the volume.
Note: This button is available only when you can repair, expand or change RAID
type.
Delete Select a disk group and click Delete to remove it.
Note: If you delete a disk group, all data in the disk group is erased.
Add Hot Spare Select a RAID 1 or RAID 5 disk group and click Add Hot Spare to add another disk as a hot-spare
(standby) to the RAID array. See Section 5.6 on page 97 for more information.
Note: The capacity of the disk you are adding must be equal to or greater than the
largest disk in the RAID 1 or RAID 5 array.
Note: You need four hard disks installed to use RAID 5 with hotspare.
Remove Hot
Spare
Select a RAID 1 or RAID 5 disk group and click Remove Hot Spare to remove the standby drive
from the RAID array.
Status This field shows the status of the disk group.
Disk Group
Name
This field shows the name of the disk group.
RAID Type This field shows the type of the RAID over which this disk group is running.
Allocation Status This field shows the percentage of the disk group size that is available, the disk group size being
used, and the total disk group size.
Hot Spare
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