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Updates to the User Guide
This section includes updates to the Spectra nTier700 Backup and Archive
Appliance User Guide. These updates will be added to the user guide the
next time it is revised.
Notes: The current version of the user guide is entitled Spectra
nTier700 Intelligent Secondary Storage Appliance User Guide.
The title will be changed the next time the user guide is
updated.
Always make sure that you have the latest version of the
documentation for the nTier700 by checking the Spectra
Logic web site at www.spectralogic.com/documents.
CHAPTER 1—OVERVIEW
The following sections update the information in this chapter.
Features
RAID-protected data disks The nTier700 includes up to six sets of high-
performance disk drives mounted in removable enclosures called blades.
For security, the blades can be locked to prevent unauthorized removal.
A minimum of one blade must be installed in the nTier700. Each blade
contains ten 1 Terabyte (TB) or 2 TB disk drives. The drives in each blade
are preconfigured as a single NTFS-formatted RAID 6 NAS volume.
Task Described beginning on...
Chapter 1—Overview this page
Chapter 2—Installing the nTier700 page 30
Chapter 3—Configuring the nTier700 page 40
Chapter 8—Maintaining the nTier700 page 54
Appendix A—Service and Support page 63
Appendix B – Specifications page 64
Appendix D—Tuning Gigabit Ethernet Network
Performance
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