FUSION R400S RAID ™ 1U Rackmount 4-Drive Hardware RAID 5 SATA Storage System with eSATA Interface User’s Guide For Windows
Fusion R400S RAID Features ➊ ➋ ➌ ➎ ➍ ➎ ➎ 4–P resence, Activity, and Fault Indicator LEDs for Drives 2 – 4 These LEDs indicate the ready state (solid green), read and write activity (flashes green), and fault status (OFF) for drives 2 – 4.
Drive Installation and Enclosure Setup 1. Remove the Fusion R400S RAID from its packaging, and place it on a flat, level surface. drive module 2. If you intend to use the Fusion enclosure in a rack, install the Sonnet rack slide set (or equivalent), sold separately: • FUS-RSS-P for 17–21.5" deep racks • FUS-RSS-S for 23–26.5" deep racks • FUS-RSS for 27–30.5" deep racks • FUS-RSS-L for 29–32.
Drive Mode Selection Instructions General Information The drives included with Fusion R400S RAID are configured as a RAID 5 group and Mac OS Extended-formatted. The following information may help you to decide whether you need to reformat the drives: • OS X® users wishing to use the Fusion R400S RAID as configured may start using the product immediately; the drives will appear on the desktop as a single volume. •O S X users wishing to use the R400S RAID in another mode (RAID 0, RAID 10, etc.
OS Formatting Instructions OS X Users’ Instructions 9. When the Format Partition window appears, enter a new name for the volume, select “Perform a quick format”, and then click Next. 1. After changing the disk mode and turning on or restarting your computer, a Disk Insertion window will appear stating that there is an unreadable volume; click Initialize, and then Disk Utility will open. Note: If you do not select the quick format option, this process will take much longer to complete. 2.
Drive Mode Selection and OS Formatting 11. When the Format Partition window appears, enter a new name for the volume table if you’d like. Select Perform a quick format, and then click Next. 12. When the next window appears, click Finish. Note: If you do not select the quick format option, this process will take much longer to complete. 13. If the drives were configured in any mode other than JBOD, once the RAID group has been formatted and finishes building, it is ready to use.
Status LED Indications System Powered, No Data Reads or Writes System Powered, No Data Reads or Writes When the Fusion R400S RAID is powered on, and no data is being written or read, the Power and Drive LEDs turn on (Figure 5). LEDs stay on Power Rebuild 1 2 3 4 Figure 5 Drive Activity Drive Activity (Data Reads and Writes) When data is being read from or written to a drive, its corresponding LED will flash during read and write activity (Figure 6).
Drive Mode Descriptions WARNING: RAID 5 and 10 formatting improves RAID 0: Striping, No Redundancy data accessibility and reliability during normal operations, however, you still need a good backup strategy for long-term protection of your data. To configure the Fusion R400S RAID’s drives, refer to Select Drive Mode on page 5. The following pages describe the drive configuration modes supported by this Sonnet product.
Drive Mode Descriptions RAID 5: Striping, Parity Distributed Among Drives RAID 5 increases reliability while using fewer drives than mirroring by using parity redundancy: parity is distributed across multiple drives. Any one of the four drives can fail, and the volume will continue to function. See Figure 12. RAID 5 formatting offers 75% capacity of the four drives’ total capacity. For instance, if your system has four 2TB drives, the total unformatted capacity is 8TB.
Tips and Additional Information Specifications Compatibility Compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux computers with an eSATA interface External Connector One locking eSATA Data Transfer Speed Up to 240 MB/s, depending on interface used and drive configuration OS Support Platform independent Supported Drive Configurations Hardware-based RAID 0, 5, and 10; span, clone, and JBOD(1) Power Supply Universal 220W, 100–240V AC, 50–60Hz Operating Temperature 32 to 104˚ F (0˚ C to +40˚ C) Dimensions (Wx
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