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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual
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1 WELCOME....................................................................................................................6
1.1 PRECAUTION................................................................................................................................................6
1.2 FEATURES .....................................................................................................................................................7
1.2.1 DATA SECURITY............................................................................................................................................................................7
1.2.2 DATA PERFORMANCE.................................................................................................................................................................7
1.2.3 DATA VERSATILITY.......................................................................................................................................................................7
1.3 EASE OF USE.................................................................................................................................................7
1.4 SPECIFICATIONS.........................................................................................................................................8
1.5 SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS .....................................................................................................8
1.6 PRODUCT CONTENTS................................................................................................................................9
2 INTRODUCTION TO RAID......................................................................................10
2.1 RAID VOLUMES..........................................................................................................................................10
2.2 SEGMENTING DISKS ................................................................................................................................10
2.3 RAID LEVELS...............................................................................................................................................11
2.3.1 DISK STRIPING (RAID 0).............................................................................................................................................................11
2.3.2 DISK MIRRORING (RAID 1) ........................................................................................................................................................12
2.3.3 DISK MIRRORING AND STRIPING (RAID 10) ..........................................................................................................................12
2.3.4 PARITY RAID (RAID 5).................................................................................................................................................................13
2.3.5 CONCATENATION ......................................................................................................................................................................13
2.3.6 SINGLE DRIVE / SEGMENT........................................................................................................................................................14
2.4
RAID VOLUME STATUS............................................................................................................................14
3 INSTALLATION..........................................................................................................15
3.1 COMPONENTS............................................................................................................................................15
3.2 INSTALLING HARDWARE ........................................................................................................................15
3.3 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS 2000...........................................................................................................15
3.3.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER .....................................................................................................................15