Creating a spare hard drive – Dell Inspiron 530 User Manual

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8 On the Select Member Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive to

select the member drive that you want to act as the mirror in the array, and
click Next.

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

click Next.

NOTE:

In the following step, you will lose all data contained on the

member drive.

10 Click Finish to start migrating, or click Back to make changes. You can use

your computer normally during migration process.

Creating a Spare Hard Drive

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

To Mark a Drive as a Spare Hard Drive:

1 Click Start

and point to All Programs

→ Intel

®

Matrix Storage

Manager

→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to launch the Intel

®

Matrix

Storage Manager.

2 Right-click the hard drive you want to mark as a spare hard drive.
3 Click Mark as Spare.

To Remove Spare Marking From a Spare Hard Drive:

1 Right-click the spare hard drive icon.
2 Click Reset Hard Drive to Non-RAID.

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