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- Page 1 FUSION S RAID ™ 1U Rackmount 4-Drive Hardware RAID 5 SATA Storage System with eSATA Interface User’s Guide Windows...
- Page 3 ➎ 1 – Power Indicator LED 4 – Presence, Activity, and Fault Indicator LEDs for This blue LED lights when the Fusion R400S RAID 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 –...
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Page 4: Drive Installation And Enclosure Setup
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for the remaining drives. until it clicks 6. Install the Fusion R400S RAID into the rack or set it on the Figure 2 surface which it will reside. Connect Fusion R400S RAID to Computer and Power Outlet 1. -
Page 5: General Information
Drive Mode Selection Instructions General Information The drives included with Fusion R400S RAID are configured as a RAID 5 group and Mac OS Extended-formatted. The following information may help you to decide whether you need to reformat the drives: • OS X users wishing to use the Fusion R400S RAID as ®... - Page 6 2 – 4 for the remaining three drives. which is not accessible by Windows XP 32-bit systems. 5. Close Disk Utility; the Fusion R400S RAID is ready for use. 1. Select Computer Management From the Windows Start menu.
- Page 7 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.
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Page 8: Status Led Indications
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 5). -
Page 9: Drive Mode Descriptions
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. To configure the Fusion R400S RAID’s drives, refer to Select Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 Drive Mode on page 5. -
Page 10: Jbod (Just A Bunch Of Disks)
Drive Mode Descriptions RAID 5: Striping, Parity Distributed Among Drives RAID 5: RAID 5 increases reliability while using fewer drives than mirroring by using parity redundancy: parity is distributed Striping, Parity Distributed Among Drives across multiple drives. Any one of the four drives can fail, Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3... -
Page 11: Safety Precautions
Before configuration you call Sonnet Customer Service, please check our Web site for OS Support Platform independent the latest updates and online support files, and check this User’s... - Page 12 ©2012 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, Mac OS, 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.