D-Link Storage device Computer Drive User Manual


 
30D-Link ShareCenter Shadow DNS-325 User Manual
Section 4 - Configuration
Disk Management
Hard Drive Configuration
To setup the Hard Drive RAID configuration of your ShareCenter, click on the Management tab and then the Disk Management icon. Select the Hard Drive Configuration
menu item on the left of the window. This menu will allow you set the RAID type and format your hard drives.
Hard Drive
Configuration
Your ShareCenter hard drives can be configured and
formatted in various RAID configurations here.
Current Raid
Type
If the drives are already formatted the RAID configuration will
be displayed here.
Set RAID
type and Re-
Format
Click on this button to launch a wizard to allow you to select
the RAID configuration and format the drives. Refer to the
section titled “What is RAID?” on page 99 for more information
about RAID.
Auto-Rebuild
Configuration
If you have chosen RAID 1 as the configuration option then
set the Auto-Rebuild function here using the radio buttons.
Enable
Auto-
Rebuild
Enabling Auto-Rebuild will rebuild a failed RAID 1 drive
when a new drive has replaced the degraded one.
Disable
Auto-
Rebuild
If you do not want to automatically rebuild drives after a
failure when using the RAID 1 functionality then you can
check this option.
Note: You can still rebuild a drive using the RAID 1
functionality however you must initiate the rebuild
manually.
Manual
Rebuild Now
If you have disabled Auto-Rebuild then you can use the
Manual Rebuild option by clicking this button.