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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...
I have been able to find a definitive answer for you.
"A hot spare disk remains in standby mode and automatically replaces data from a failed disk from the volume. If your volume is configured as RAID 1 or RAID 5, and your system at least one disk more than the minimum for that RAID level installed, you can specify one disk to function as a hot spare." Page 21 software manual.
So it does not stay fully active while waiting to be used and will have less ware than the active drives.
"A hot spare disk remains in standby mode and automatically replaces data from a failed disk from the volume. If your volume is configured as RAID 1 or RAID 5, and your system at least one disk more than the minimum for that RAID level installed, you can specify one disk to function as a hot spare." Page 21 software manual.
So it does not stay fully active while waiting to be used and will have less ware than the active drives.
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