Gen5I Removable Disk - HBM Genesis GEN5i User Manual

GEN5i
Any (recording) file written to a disk is always stored using multiple smaller
blocks of data. Each block of data is written sequentially to the windows disk.
As the data is written to the RAID controller, it spreads the sequential written
data blocks across the disks of the RAID array. As the GEN5i uses two disks
all odd data blocks are written to hard disk 1 all even data blocks are written to
hard disk 2.
The net effect is almost a doubled data read and write speed compared to the
use a of single hard disk. If however one of the disk experiences data read
errors the entire recording is lost as no redundancy is available.
6.9.2

GEN5i Removable disk

The GEN5i mainframe has an removable disk bay. It is conveniently located on
the front side of the GEN5i for quick an easy removal of the disks.
Figure 6.8: GEN5i removable disk bay
All removable disk options use this disk bay; only one removable disk option
can be used at the same time. Ordering multiple disk options is possible to be
used one after the other.
WARNING
®
Windows will not recognize the removable disk option as a removable
disk. To prevent loss of data and disk integrity shutdown the GEN5i before
removing or replacing your disk.
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