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Removing a Drive
If you have hot swappable drives in a carrier or an enclosure and you want to physically remove a drive from your system without powering it down, you should first remove it through the 3ware software.
Follow this procedure 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.
 
Physically removing a drive that is not in a hot swap bay or that is part of a non-redundant unit, can result in a system hang or may even damage the system and the drive.
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.
 
If you physically remove a drive on a controller without first removing it in 3DM, it will be listed as removed, however it will not be completely removed unless you Rescan the controller.
To remove a drive
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In 3DM, choose Management > Maintenance.
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.
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You can now remove the drive from your system.
If you removed a drive that was part of a unit, the unit will become degraded, as shown in the screenshot below.
Show Result of Removing Drive from Unit in 3DM

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