Product specifications

MediaNetwork Storage Overview

Protection

You can ensure the data integrity of the MediaNetwork drive set by optionally

protecting workspaces. When protection is enabled, it creates a duplicate copy

of each file that is written to the workspace on another drive.

Protected workspaces can provide improved performance because the

MediaNetwork software uses both copies of a file to provide faster file access.

They can also be repaired quickly with no data loss if a drive fails.

A protected workspace uses twice as much storage space as an unprotected

workspace.

Drive Set

Physical (Hardware) Perspective

Logical (User’s) Perspective

Workspaces

Allocation Group 1

Allocation group 2

(Drives of Size X)

(Drives of Size Y)

(Data drives and

optional spares)

(Various sizes)

The drive set is partitioned into

one or more allocation groups.

These groups are transparent

to the user, who sees only one

or more available workspaces.