T E C H N O L O G I E S User Guide RAID Tower V (RT5835HEU3) www.addonics.com v5.1.11 Technical Support If you need any assistance to get your unit functioning properly, please have your product information ready and contact Addonics Technical Support at: Hours: 8:30 am - 6:00 pm PST Phone: 408-453-6212 Email: http://www.addonics.
Removing Cover of Raid Tower V Loosen the 3 screws at the back of the tower using a Philips screwdriver. Push cover toward the rear of the tower and lift slightly to disengage and remove. Arrays Array 1 The RT5835HEU3 contains two individual Port Multipliers, each managing an array of four drives. Array 1 includes the four drives on the left of the Disk Array 5SA, and Array 2 includes the far right drive on Disk Array 5SA, along with all drives in Disk Array 3SA as shown.
Alarm & LED Reset Switch Drive Drawers Drive Power Switch and LED Disk Array 5SA and Disk Array 3SA HDD LED: located above the drives on Disk Array 5SA and in the HDD power switches on Disk Array 3SA, one LED for each drive. LED glows green to indicate drives are powered up and blink amber to indicate activity. FAN LED: indicates fan failure. TEMPERATURE LED: Located next to HDD LEDs on Disk Array 5SA and inside RESET button on Disk Array 3SA. Indicates temperature beyond range inside the enclosure.
Setting or Modifying the RAID Mode NOTE: Setting or modifying the RAID mode destroys all data. 1. Follow the procedure for resetting the RAID Mode. 2. Power down the unit and set the dip switch to the desired RAID Mode. 3. While holding the SET button with a ballpoint pen, turn the unit on. A long beep will sound from the Port Multiplier. The SET button may be released once the long beep stops.
Raid Mode BZS1 EZ M2 M1 M0 JBOD (Individual drives) OFF OFF2 OFF OFF OFF * FACTORY DEFAULT SETTING ON3 ON ON ON OFF ON ON OFF OFF OFF 3 ON ON OFF OFF OFF 5 ON OFF OFF OFF OFF CLONE ON ON OFF OFF OFF LARGE ON3 ON ON OFF OFF 1 Audible alarm is recommended at all times. 2 EZ mode has no effect in JBOD mode. 3 Disabling EZ for RAID 0 and LARGE is strongly recommended.
RAID 3 (Stripe set with dedicated parity) Number of drives: at least 3 Unit capacity: size of one member times number of members minus one. Spares: yes Fault tolerance: can withstand the loss of one drive without losing data. RAID 3 works by striping data for individual I/O blocks across all members except one, which contains parity data for the stripe set computed by the Port Multiplier.
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