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Hot Spare status
All, I have always wondered what the hot spare is doing while waiting to be put into action. Is it powered up and eating power or is it powered down until needed. Hopefully the latter is true...
Got it. I don't use flexraid; I had forgotten about that feature.
stretchjr wrote: I am actually talking about the hot spare feature that is available only in Flex-raid mode and not in X-raid mode. This spare (hot spare)
drive occupies a slot in your NAS and sits un-utilized until one of the live drives fails.
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