Making a JBOD Drive

Perform these steps to change the status of unconfigured good drives to JBOD drives.

  1. Navigate to the Controller dashboard and click the Drives tab.
    All of the associated drives appear.
  2. Expand Unconfigured Drives and select an unconfigured good drive.
  3. Select Element(s) Actions > Make JBOD.
    • Secure (Default) – Make the physical disk secure.
      Note: Secure is checked by default when one UG physical disk is already secured and when the user wants to to convert the drive to JBOD.
    • Cryptographic Erase (FIPS compliant, Warning Loss of Data). – Erase the PD and convert to JBOD.