MSA 2060

[fparas]

Hi,

I have an MSA 2060 Storage with 5 HDD, the 2 is SSD for cache and the other 3 SATA is for one volume.

Is it okay if there are no spare disks?

Thank you.

[venkat_y]

Hello@ fparas ,

Yes, it is fine, but A spare disk is necessary for volume. The spare disk will protect data and reduce downtime if any disk fails unexpectedly.

Generally, the spare disk is an unused disk that replaces a failed disk automatically in your system, restoring fault tolerance to your disk group. The controller automatically reconstructs a fault-tolerant disk group (RAID 1, 5, 6, 10) if one or more disks fail and a spare is available.

Please refer to the below document for information about spare disks,

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=a00128580en_us 

(Page 25)

Hope this is helpful!

Regards,

Venkat

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