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  • Limit the drive view
    If the storage array includes drives with different types of physical and logical attributes, the Hardware page provides filter fields that help you limit the drive view and locate specific drives.
  • Turn on drive locator light
    From the Hardware page, you can turn on the locator light to find the physical location of a drive in the storage array.
  • View drive status and settings
    You can view status and settings for the drives, such as the media type, interface type, and capacity.
  • Replace drive logically
    If a drive fails or you want to replace it for any other reason, and you have an unassigned drive in your storage array, you can logically replace the failed drive with the unassigned drive. If you do not have an unassigned drive, you can physically replace the drive instead.
  • Reconstruct drive manually
    Drive reconstruction normally starts automatically after you replace a drive. If drive reconstruction does not start automatically, you can start reconstruction manually.
  • Initialize (format) drive
    If you move assigned drives from one storage array to another, you must initialize (format) the drives before they can be used in the new storage array.
  • Fail drive
    If instructed to do so, you can manually fail a drive.
  • Assign hot spares
    You can assign a hot spare as a standby drive for additional data protection in RAID 1, RAID 5, or RAID 6 volume groups. If a drive fails in one of these volume groups, the controller reconstructs data from the failed drive to the hot spare.
  • Unassign hot spares
    You can change a hot spare back to an unassigned drive.
  • Erase drives
    You can use the Erase option to prepare an unassigned drive for removal from the system. This procedure permanently removes data, ensuring that the data cannot be read again.