Dell PowerVault 775N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) - Manual (Page 51)

4. Select the foreign disks that you would like to merge to the system.
By default all foreign disks are selected to be merged.
5. Click Next.
6. Click Next again to validate the volume status of each foreign disk.
7. Click Finish.
Monitoring Disk Reliability
Array Manager supports Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) on array disks that are SMART enabled.
SMART performs predictive failure analysis on each hard drive and sends an alert if a hard disk failure is predicted. The RAID
controllers check the array disks for failure predictions. If the RAID controller predicts a failure, it passes the information to
the Array Manager. Array Manager immediately displays an alert icon for the hard drive, raises an alert under the Events tab,
and puts an alert message in the Widows Powered Event Log.
NOTE: The supported PERC controllers do not report SMART alerts for unassigned or hot-spare hard drives. Also, when
you pause controller I/O, the controller does not send SMART alerts or events.
Volume Management
This section describes conceptual and procedural information about how Array Manager implements basic and dynamic
volumes.
The following topics are discussed:
Volume overview
Checking partition or volume properties
Formatting a partition or volume
Deleting a partition or volume
Volume Overview
A volume is a logical entity that consists of portions of one or more physical disks. A volume can be formatted with a file
system and can be accessed by a drive letter.
Like disks, volumes can be basic or dynamic. In Array Manager, basic volumes refer to all volumes that are not on dynamic
disks. Dynamic volumes are logical volumes created from dynamic disks with Array Manager.
In your system, create all data volumes and dynamic volumes on dynamic disks. Only the operating system drive should
remain basic because of system recovery limitations.
Checking Partition or Volume Properties
1. Right-click the partition or volume to be checked.
2. Choose Properties from the context menu.
The Properties window displays.
3. Check the properties for your volume.