User manual

ConnectStor II User Manual

Key Features

The following are key features of the Promise ConnectStor II:

Drive Types

• Supports up to two 3.5-inch IDE drives (Ultra ATA, DMA, and EIDE)

• Supports Ultra ATA/133, Ultra ATA/100, Ultra ATA/66, Ultra ATA/33, EIDE, and

Fast ATA-2 speeds (UDMA 5/4/3/2/1/0 and DMA 2/1/0, respectively)

Status Indicators

• Power Status LED shows power on/off and system status

• Drive Activity LED displays drive activity (reads or writes)

• Network Activity LED displays individual network requests

Ultra ATA/100 Support

• 100MB/sec burst data transfers of Ultra ATA/133/100 drives

• Implements high-speed CRC error-checking

RAID 0 (Striping) Functions

• Links to two drives as a single large capacity drive volume

• With two drives, doubles sustained data transfer rate to speed up large file transfers

• Does not offer fault protection

RAID 1 (Mirroring) Functions

• Sends identical data to two installed drives

• Maintains access to data if a single drive fails

• Rebuilds data to replacement drive automatically

Network Support

• Built-in 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller for high data transfers

• Supports popular network protocols: TCP/IP, NFS, SMB/CIFS

Configuration & Monitoring

• Easy setup and monitoring of ConnectStor II unit via web browser (requires MS

Internet Explorer 5 or higher, Netscape Navigator 4 or higher)

• IPassign™ utility to manually assign IP address IF network does not support

automatic IP address assignment (DHCP/BOOTP)