Failing a Disk Drive

Use the Fail Disk Drive option to fail a selected disk drive or multiple disk drives.


Attention:

Possible loss of data access – This operation could result in data loss or the loss of data . Do not use this operation unless instructed to do so by the Recovery Guru. This operation fails when a modification operation is in progress.

Conditions in which data loss will occur:

Conditions in which a loss of data redundancy will occur:


Important:

Use this option only under the guidance of a representative.

  1. Select the Physical tab.
  2. Select one or more disk drives.
  3. Select Advanced >> Recovery >> Fail Disk Drive .
  4. Type yes, and click OK.
    The disk drives fail, and the dialog closes. The disk drives appear in the state in the selected mode.


    Note:

    If you plan to remove the disk drive, wait at least 30 seconds before you remove it.

    If this disk drive was assigned to , the Logical tab changes as described in this table.

    Conditions Results
    The logical drive was in Optimal status before the disk drive was failed The logical drive changes to Degraded status on the Logical tab.
    The logical drive was in Degraded status before the disk drive was failed The logical drive changes to Failed status on the Logical tab.

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