Transfer Disks

Learn how transfer disk and how you can use them to run disk import transfer jobs.

Important

Before creating a transfer disk from an attached disk, remove all partitions and any file systems. To prevent the accidental deletion of data, the Data Transfer Utility does not work with disks that already have partitions or file systems. Disks are visible to the Data Host as block devices and must provide a valid response to the hdparm -I device Linux command.

You can perform the following transfer disk management tasks: