Areca ARC-1110 User Manual

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Any unused disk drive that is not part of a RAID set can be desig-

nated as a Hot Spare. The “Quick Volume/Raid Setup” configuration 

will add the spare disk drive and automatically display the appro-

priate raid level from which the user can select. For the “Raid Set 

Function configuration” option, the user can use the “Create Hot 

Spare” option to define the hot spare disk drive.

When a Hot Spare disk drive is being created using the “Create Hot 

Spare” option (in the Raid Set Function), all unused physical de-

vices connected to the current controller appear:  

Choose the target disk by selecting the appropriate check box.

Press the Enter key to select a disk drive, and press Yes in the 

Create Hot Spare to designate it as a hot spare.

• Add physical drives,

• Define volume sets,

• Modify volume sets,

• Modify RAID level/stripe size,

• Define pass-through disk drives,

• Modify system functions, and

• Designate drives as hot spares.

You can configure RAID sets and volume sets with McBIOS RAID 

manager automatically using Quick Volume/Raid Setup or manually 

using Raid Set/Volume Set Function. Each configuration method re-

quires a different level of user input. The general flow of operations 

for RAID set and volume set configuration is:

1

Designate hot spares/pass-through drives (optional).

2

Choose a configuration method.

3

Create RAID sets using the available physical drives.

4

Define volume sets using the space available in the RAID Set.

5

Initialize the volume sets and use volume sets (as logical drives) in the 

host OS.