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MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING THE DEVICE

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Managing and Customizing

the Device

This chapter includes the following topics:

Checking Device Health
Managing the RAID Configuration
Erasing the Device Drives
Registering the Device
Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image
Safely Dismounting the Device Drives

The WD Drive Utilities software makes it easy for you to manage and customize your
device for the best possible performance:

• Diagnostics—Run diagnostics and status checks to make sure your device drives

are working properly.

• RAID Management—Check the operational status or change the device drive

configuration.

• Drive Erase—Erase all of the data on the drives.

• Registration—Register your device to receive free technical support during the

warranty period and find out about software updates, product enhancements, and
price discount opportunities.

On the WD Drive Utilities screen Figure 3 on page 9:

Checking Device Health

The WD Drive Utilities software provides three diagnostic tools to help make sure that
your device is performing well. Run the following tests if you are concerned that your
device is not operating properly:

• S.M.A.R.T. Status Check

S.M.A.R.T. is a failure-prediction function that continuously monitors key internal
performance attributes of the device drives. A detected increase in drive
temperature, noise, or read/write errors, for example, can provide an indication
that the drive is approaching a serious failure condition. With advanced warning,
you could take precautionary measures, like moving your data to another device,
before a failure occurs.

The result of a S.M.A.R.T. status check is a pass or fail evaluation of the drives’
condition.

IF you want to . . .

THEN click . . .

AND see . . .

Run drive diagnostics and status
checks,

Diagnostics

“Checking Device Health” in
the next section.

Check the RAID status or change the
configuration of the device drives,

RAID Management

“Managing the RAID
Configuration” on page 12

Erase the drives so you can retrieve
the space and start over,

Drive Erase