The MD3220 is full of 300GB 15K SAS drives
The MD1220 is full of 1TB NL "SAS" 7.2K drives.
Both enclosures have disks 22 & 23 unused with the intention of being hot spares.
However all mechanisms I use to create hot spares simply attaches all four drives to both enclosures. I would prefer to have the two spares drives only protecting the drives in their own enclosure.
interestingly enough I asked the dell software to "auto configure" (sic) the hot spares and it decided two ONLY use the 1TB drives, and to use them to protect both enclosures. Additionally I was rather perplexed as to why it also allowed me to manually do the nonsensical configuration of allowing a 300GB drive to protect an enclosure made up of 24 1TB drives.
Anyway, is it possible to have host spares associated with just one enclosure (or group of drives).?
Thanks.
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