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Removing a Drive
If you have a hot-swap carrier and want to physically remove a drive from your system without powering it down, you must first remove it through the 3ware software.
This is useful if you know that a drive is developing a problem and you want to replace it, or to replace a drive which has already failed.
Warnings:
Physically removing a drive that is not in a hotswap carrier can result in a system hang or may even damage the system and the drive.
If you unplug a drive without first removing it through 3DM or 3BM, Rescan will not recognize it as gone. Always use the Remove Drive command to remove a drive before unplugging it.
If you want to remove a unit from your system and reassemble it in another system, do not follow these steps. Instead, turn to Removing a Unit. The steps below will destroy any information that identifies this drive as part of a RAID unit. Existing data on this drive will no longer be available.To remove a drive
- In 3DM, choose Management > Maintenance.
On the Maintenance Page, remove Drive links appear next to all drives that can be removed from units, and next to drives in the Available Drives list.
- Locate the drive you want to remove and click the Remove Drive link .
(You can remove a drive that is part of a unit, or that is shown in the list of Available Drives.)
- When 3DM asks you to confirm that you want to remove the drive, click OK.
You can now remove the drive from your system.
If you removed a drive that was part of a unit, the unit may become degraded.
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