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X500
Expansion Unit with RAID Function
QUICK START GUIDE
Rugged Mobile Computing Solutions

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  • Page 1 X500 Expansion Unit with RAID Function QUICK START GUIDE Rugged Mobile Computing Solutions...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    1. Overview ······································································· 1 2. Software Installation ···················································· 2 Installing the Controller Driver ···································· 2 Installing Adaptec Storage Manager ··························· 2 3. Creating Arrays ····························································· 3 Using Adaptec Storage Manager to Create Arrays ····· 3 Using the ARC Utility to Create Arrays ························ 7 4.

  • Page 3: Overview

    Overview This Expansion Unit, a housing attached to the bottom of X500, provides up to 5TB extra storage space with RAID support. By default, the Expansion Unit comes with three 1TB disk drives configured as RAID5. Five indicator LEDs for five physical drives You can easily swap a drive by loosening the screws to open the protection door and then pulling the drive out of its slot.

  • Page 4: Software Installation

    1. Start Windows. The Found New Hardware Wizard opens and searches for the driver. 2. Insert X500 Driver Disc in the DVD drive. Select Locate and Install Driver Software..and Don’t Search Online. 3. Browse to the driver location as below and click OK.

  • Page 5: Creating Arrays

    Creating Arrays NOTE: This document provides only basic information. It is assumed that you are an advanced user familiar with RAID. You can create arrays using either Adaptec Storage Manager or ARC Utility. Using Adaptec Storage Manager to Create Arrays Adaptec Storage Manager is a software application that helps you build a storage space for your data.
  • Page 6 4. Double-click Controller 1 RAID controller Adaptec 6805. 5. The physical drives are shown on the screen. Click Create on the toolbar.
  • Page 7 6. The wizard screen appears, offering two configuration methods: Express configuration and Custom configuration. Use the express method when you want to use all available disk drives in the most efficient manner. Use the custom method when you want to create specific logical drives with any or all available disk drives and configure advanced settings manually.
  • Page 8 To open the online Help, click the Help button (shown at right).  In addition to the online Help, you can refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User’s Guide (in the \User Manual\Raid_6805 folder of X500 Driver Disc) for comprehensive and detailed information.

  • Page 9: Using The Arc Utility To Create Arrays

    Disk Utilities – For formatting or verifying disk drives. To create arrays using this tool: 1. Run the BIOS Setup program of your X500. Make sure that the “Boot-time Diagnostic Screen” item in the “Advanced” menu is enabled. 2. Start your computer.

  • Page 10: Notes And Hints

    Each time the system is powered on, X500 has to initialize the Expansion Unit before starting the OS. The initialization takes about 1 minute. Also, it takes about 1 minute for X500 with the Expansion Unit to wake up from S3 (Sleep) or S4 (Hibernation) state.
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