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Sonnet Fusion R400 User Manual

Low-cost, four-bay 1u storage system uses 3.5-inch sata drives, is versatile and easy to configure with raid 5
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FUSION
R
RAID USB 3.0
™
1U Rackmount 4-Drive Hardware RAID 5 SATA Storage System with USB 3.0 Interface
User's Guide
For
Windows

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  • Page 1 FUSION RAID USB 3.0 ™ 1U Rackmount 4-Drive Hardware RAID 5 SATA Storage System with USB 3.0 Interface User’s Guide Windows...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    1 Fusion R400 RAID USB 3.0 Features 2 Drive Installation and Enclosure Setup Install Drives Connect the Fusion R400 RAID USB 3.0 to Computer and Power Outlet 3 Drive Mode Descriptions RAID 0: Striping, No Redundancy RAID 10: Striping, Mirror Spans Two Drives...
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  • Page 5: Fusion R400 Raid Usb 3.0 Features

    ➎ 1 – Power Indicator LED 4 – Presence, Activity, and Fault Indicator LEDs for This blue LED lights when the Fusion R400 RAID USB 3.0 is Drives 2 – 4 powered. These LEDs indicate the ready state (solid green), read and write activity (flashes green), and fault status (OFF) for drives 2 –...

  • Page 6: Drive Installation And Enclosure Setup

    (Figure 4). 8. Repeat steps 3 – 7 for the remaining drives, and then install the Fusion R400 RAID USB 3.0 into the rack or set it on the surface which it will reside.

  • Page 7: Drive Mode Descriptions

    Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 in the Fusion R400 RAID USB 3.0. Due to varying operating characteristics, the use of different drives may lead to issues ranging from reduced total capacity, to louder operation, to RAID failures.

  • Page 8: Raid 5: Striping, Parity Distributed Among Drives

    3 – Drive Mode Descriptions RAID 5: Striping, Parity Distributed Among Drives RAID 5: RAID 5 configuration increases reliability while using fewer drives than RAID 10 mirroring by using parity redundancy: Striping, Parity Distributed Among Drives parity is distributed across multiple drives. Any one of the four drives can fail, and the volume will continue to Disk 1 Disk 2...

  • Page 9: Drive Mode Configuration Instructions

    4 – Drive Mode Configuration Instructions General Information Drives installed into the Fusion R400 RAID USB 3.0 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.

  • Page 10: Drive Formatting Instructions

    GPT. Click OK. the window. 4. In the Disk Management window, the Fusion R400 RAID USB 3. Select a drive format and name for the volume, and then 3.0’s drives will appear (listed as “unallocated”) as a single click the Erase button;...

  • Page 11: Status Led Indications

    System Powered, No Data Reads or Writes System Powered, No Data Reads or Writes When the Fusion R400 RAID USB 3.0 is powered on, and no data is being written or read, the Power and Drive LEDs turn on (Figure 12).

  • Page 12: Specifications, Warnings, And Additional Information

    ©2014 Sonnet Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Sonnet, the Sonnet logotype, Simply Fast, the Simply Fast logotype, Creativity Stored Here, and Fusion are trademarks of Sonnet Technologies, Inc. Mac, the Mac logo, and OS X are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Other product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Product specifications subject to change without notice. Printed in...

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