Installing Disk Drives; Drive Slot Numbering - Promise VTRAK M610i Product Manual

Installing Disk Drives

You can populate the VTrak with 3.5-inch, 1.5 Gb/s or 3.0 Gb/s SATA drives. For
optimal performance, install physical drives of the same model and capacity. The
drives' matched performance allows the logical drive to function better as a single
drive. The table below shows the number of drives required for each RAID level.
Level
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 1E
RAID 5
* Must be an even number of drives.

Drive Slot Numbering

You can install any suitable disk drive into any slot in the enclosure. The diagram
below shows how VTrak's drive slots are numbered. Slot numbering is reflected
in the WebPAM PROe and CLU user interfaces.
Figure 6. VTrak M610i drive slot numbering
1
9
Number of Drives
1 or more
2 only
2 or more
3 to 16
Unlike other VTrak models, the M610i, M310i, and M210i do not
support Parallel ATA disk drives. There is no PATA-to-SATA
adapter available for these models.
2
5
10
13
14
Level
RAID 6
RAID 10
RAID 50
Note
3
6 7
11
15
15
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Number of Drives
4 to 16
4 or more*
6 or more
4
8
12
16