Specifications

DS300f G2 Series User Manual
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InstallInG physICal drIves
If your ASUS DS300f G2 subsystem shipped with the drives installed at the factory, you can skip this section
and go to
"Making Serial Cable Connections" on page 29
The ASUS DS300f G2 subsystems and JBOD expansion units support:
• SAS and SATA physical drives
• 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch physical drives
• Hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD)
For a list of supported physical drives, download the latest compatibility list from ASUS Storage support:
http://www.ASUS Storage.com/support/.
number of DrIveS requIreD
The table below shows the number of drives required for each RAID level.
Level Number of Drives Level Number of Drives
RAID0 1ormore RAID6 4to32
RAID1 2only RAID10 4ormore*
RAID1E 2ormore RAID30 6ormore
RAID3 3to32 RAID50 6ormore
RAID5 3to32 RAID60 8ormore
 * Mustbeanevennumberofdrives.
DrIve Slot numberInG
You can install any suitable disk drive into any slot in the enclosure. The diagram below shows how ASUS
DS300fG2’sdriveslotsarenumbered.SlotnumberingisreectedintheASUSStorageManagementandCLU
user interfaces.
Figure 2 - 5: Drive slot numbering
InstallallofthedrivecarriersintotheASUSDS300fG2enclosuretoensureproperairow,evenifyoudonot
populate all the carriers with physical drives.