# Making a Drive Offline

Perform the following steps to place a drive offline.

Attention: After you perform this procedure, all of the data on the drive will be lost.

1. Navigate to the Controller dashboard, and click a drive group name (for example, DG_1), then click the icon that corresponds to a drive group to display its contents.
   The virtual drives and physical drives associated with the selected drive group appear.
2. Click the Physical Drive tab, and select a drive that you want to place offline.
3. Select Actions > Make Drive Offline.
   The drive status changes to Offline.