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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

  1. In 3DM, choose Management > Maintenance.
  2. 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.

  3. Locate the drive you want to remove and click the Remove Drive link .
  4. (You can remove a drive that is part of a unit, or that is shown in the list of Available Drives.)

  5. When 3DM asks you to confirm that you want to remove the drive, click OK.
  6. 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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