Appendix B
If you remove one or more viable disks and cause the entire RAID to fail, you can
shut down the storage system, re-install the same disks, and then restart the storage
system. As long as you re-install the original disks, the storage system
should be able to resume proper operation, although the integrity of the data cannot
be guaranteed. However, if you replace the removed disks with new disks, you must
reconfigure your disks (as described in
Responding to RAID degradation
When disk removal/failure causes RAID degradation, the Disk Change Notification
page displays when you access the Manager or refresh the browser window:
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Caution:
Reconfiguring your disks will delete all the data on your storage
system.
"Reconfiguring your storage system
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disks").