Overview - Getac X500 Quick Start Manual

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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.
The Expansion Unit features include:
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Adaptec RAID 6805 controller
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Hard disk drive slot x 5, with three drives pre-installed by default
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Indicator LED x 5
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Multiple options for creating and managing RAID arrays
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RAID levels supported: RAID0, RAID1, RAID1E, RAID 5, RAID 5EE, RAID 6, and
RAID 10
 Power-management of disk drives
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Audible alarm
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I/O statistics logging
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Disk drive hot-swapping
Three drives
at the front
Two drives at the
back (optional)
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