Chapter 2 Introduction to RAID 15Logical DriveA logical drive is a partition in a physical array of disksthat is made up of contiguous data segments on thephysical disks. A logical drive can consist of any of thefollowing:• an entire physical array,• more than one entire physical array,• a part of an array,• parts of more than one array, or• a combination of any two of the above conditions.Hot SwapA hot swap is the manual replacement of a defectivephysical disk unit while the computer is still running. Whena new drive has been installed, you must issue a commandto rebuild the drive.
