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 tray 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 29–32.5" deep racks Push in 3. Push in a drive tray’s handle until it pops out (Figure 1).
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. The following two pages describe the various drive modes supported by the R400S RAID. To configure the Fusion R400S RAID’s drives, refer to Select Drive Mode on page 5.
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 8. RAID 5 formatting offers 75% of the four drives’ total capacity. For instance, if your system has four 2TB drives, the total unformatted capacity is 8TB.
Drive Mode Selection Instructions General Information Drives installed into the Fusion R400S RAID must be configured first by the enclosure itself (drive mode), and then by your computer’s operating system. Select the drive mode following the directions below. Select Drive Mode 1. Power up the Fusion R400S RAID enclosure. Support Note: If you wish to configure the drives in JBOD mode, your eSATA controller MUST support port multiplier functionality, otherwise, only one drive will appear to the system.
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 setting 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 13). LEDs stay on Power Rebuild 1 2 3 4 Figure 13 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 14).
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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