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Glossary
free space/partition
See available space/partition.
H
hard disk, hard drive
Basic unit of nonvolatile, nonremovable, magnetic storage media.
See also drive.
hot swap
To remove a component from a system and install a new
component while the power is on and the system is running.
hotspare
A hard drive, an array member, that is not used in day-to-day data
storage but, instead, is reserved for use as a replacement for one of
the other drives in the array in the event of a failure.
I
impacted
An impacted array is one which has been created, but for some
reason the initial build operation did not complete. All member
drives are present and operational, and all data written to the array
is protected. To optimize the array, run a Verify with Fix task.
initialize
Process of preparing a disk for use by the controller. When a disk is
initialized, the controller records the RAID signature on the disk.
initialized array
An array that is ready for data reads and writes. Arrays can be
initialized by build or clear.