Preparing to Remove
NOTE: Cryptographic Erase is not supported for NVMe devices connected to SWRAID controller.
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Does my controller support this feature? See Supported features.
Use the Prepare to Remove task to spin down a physical disk or physical device so that it can be safely removed from an enclosure or backplane. It is recommended that you perform this task before removing a disk or device to prevent data loss.
This task causes the LED on the disk to blink. You can safely remove the disk or device by following the conditions listed below:
- Wait for about 30 seconds to allow the disk to spin down.
- Wait until you notice that the initial blink pattern has changed into a different pattern or the lights have stopped blinking.
A physical disk or physical device is no longer in ready state performing. Removing the physical disk or device from the enclosure or backplane and replacing it causes the physical disk or device to spin up and return to Ready state.
NOTE: This procedure is not available for physical disks or devices that have been assigned as a hot spare or physical disk or devices that are part of a virtual disk. In addition, this procedure is only supported for hot swap physical disks or devices (disks that reside in a carrier.)
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