There is nothing stopping you from removing a spare disk, but consider the following:
RAID policies with spare disks provide additional protection against drive failures. Dell recommends that you use a spare-drive RAID policy. Only use a no-spare-drive RAID policy if you have sufficient 24-hour support staff and maintain a stock of replacement disk drives.
If you want to use a no-spare disks RAID policy (say for non-critical archive data, etc.), you must use the Group Manager CLI to set the RAID policy. For more information about using the CLI, refer to the CLI Reference manual, located on the EqualLogic customer support website at: www.equallogic.com/support
The PS Array Group Administrator guide (located on the firmware download page, use the one that matches your version of firmware), lists the no-spare RAID polices that the array will support.
Joe S586
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November 11th, 2011 10:00
Can you explain why you would want to do this?
There is nothing stopping you from removing a spare disk, but consider the following:
RAID policies with spare disks provide additional protection against drive failures. Dell recommends that you use a spare-drive RAID policy. Only use a no-spare-drive RAID policy if you have sufficient 24-hour support staff and maintain a stock of replacement disk drives.
If you want to use a no-spare disks RAID policy (say for non-critical archive data, etc.), you must use the Group Manager CLI to set the RAID policy. For more information about using the CLI, refer to the CLI Reference manual, located on the EqualLogic customer support website at: www.equallogic.com/support
The PS Array Group Administrator guide (located on the firmware download page, use the one that matches your version of firmware), lists the no-spare RAID polices that the array will support.
Regards,
Joe