Product specifications

Working with Media Drives

Handling Foreign Disks

When assessing your Media RAID health, you might encounter a Foreign Disk state. This state

indicates that the disk was not fully added to the RAID array.

For information on identifying and replacing Media Drives for 4-channel or 2-channel model

systems, see the following topics:

• “Removing and Replacing Media Drives (4-Channel Models)” on page 79

• “Removing and Replacing Media Drives (2-Channel Models)” on page 105

Identifying and Replacing Failed Media Drives

In the event that you have one or more bad media drives, you can replace them. First, you must

identify which drive has failed. Then, once you know which drive has failed, you need to figure

out when you can replace it.

For four (4) channel model servers, if you are doing 4 channels of DNxHD 120/145 with proxy,

Edit While Capture performance will not be real time if a drive fails, or is offline.

For two (2) channel model servers, if you are doing 2 channels of DNxHD 120/145 with proxy,

Edit While Capture performance will not be real time if a drive fails, or is offline.

Depending on your model (2-channel or 4-channel), see the following topics for more

information.

For information on identifying and replacing Media Drives for 4-channel model systems, see the

following topics:

• “Identifying and Replacing Failed Media Drives” on page 77

• “Removing and Replacing Media Drives (4-Channel Models)” on page 79

• “Re-RAIDing Media Drives from Scratch (4-Channel Model Servers)” on page 84

For information on identifying and replacing Media Drives for 2-channel model systems, see the

following topics:

• “Identifying and Replacing Failed Media Drives” on page 77

• “Removing and Replacing Media Drives (2-Channel Models)” on page 105

• “Re-RAIDing Media Drives from Scratch (2-Channel Model Servers)” on page 109