Setting Up The Expansion Bay In Mirror Mode; How The Mirroring Sequence Works - Digimerge VBAY3HD Instruction Manual

Setting Up The Expansion Bay

Setting Up The Expansion Bay In Mirror Mode

You can set the expansion bay to run in Mirror Mode for data redundancy. Running your expansion
bay in Mirror Mode means that you will always have a backup of the Blade's hard drive data.

How the Mirroring Sequence Works

Blade DVR
Figure 2.3 The mirroring sequence. When the third hard drive (HD3) is full , the first hard drive (HD1)
begins to record.
Mirroring allows data from a primary hard drive to simultaneously copy to a secondary hard drive.
If the primary hard drive fails, the secondary hard drive serves as a temporary replacement.
For example, when the Blade's internal hard drive begins to record, the data simultaneously
copies into the first hard drive in the expansion bay (HD1 in illustration). When the Blade's hard
drive fills up, it overwrites itself, and records from the beginning.
Then, the second hard drive in the expansion bay (HD2 in illustration) begins to copy data from the
Blade. When the Blade's hard drive fills up again, the third hard drive (HD3 in illustration) copies
data from the Blade.
When the third hard drive (HD3) in the expansion bay is full, the first hard drive (HD1) begins to
copy data from the Blade. This process repeats in a loop.
To set up the expansion bay in Mirror Mode:
Configure the expansion hard drives
1. Press (Menu) on the remote to open the main menu.
2. Select SYSTEM. Press ENTER on the remote.
3. Select HDD. Press ENTER on the remote.
4. Select HDD CONFIGURATION. Press ENTER on the
remote. A window opens with a list of hard drives.
• Hard drives labeled FIXED-00 and FIXED-01 refer to the hard drives in the Blade.
• Hard drives labeled FIXED-02, FIXED-03 and FIXED-04 refer to the hard drives in the expansion
bay.
5. Select FIXED-02. Change the setting to BACKUP by pressing the f(-) or f(+) button on the
remote.
Repeat for FIXED-03 and FIXED-04 if desired.
6. Press the button on the remote until you reach the main menu.
ESC
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HD 2
HD 1
Expansion Bay
HD 3
Figure 2.4 HDD Configuration menu.