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Protecting Your 
Digital Assets

CRU RTX

®

 800-TR User Manual

Features

•   Supports JBOD and RAID levels 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, and 10 in hardware, with easy configuration 

using ATTO Technology’s RAID management software.

•   CRU TrayFree™ bays make adding drives effortless: simply open a drive bay door, 

slide  the  drive  in,  and  close  the  door.  No  screws,  no  trays,  no  tools.  The  rugged 
TrayFree bays are rated for over tens of thousands of insertions.

•   Provides  up  to  32TB  of  storage  for  video  editing,  visualization,  simulation,  high-

capacity storage, or backups of large amounts of data.

•   Dual Thunderbolt interfaces allow the fastest connection to your Mac or PC host, at 

rates up to 10 Gbps in both directions and at the same time. This kind of performance 
can transfer or back up 1TB of content in approximately 20 minutes.

A9-800-0003 Revision 1.0

Summary of Contents for RTX 800-TR

Page 1: ...no trays no tools The rugged TrayFree bays are rated for over tens of thousands of insertions Provides up to 32TB of storage for video editing visualization simulation high capacity storage or backups of large amounts of data Dual Thunderbolt interfaces allow the fastest connection to your Mac or PC host at rates up to 10 Gbps in both directions and at the same time This kind of performance can tr...

Page 2: ...ction to RAID 3 2 1 Summary of RAID Levels 3 3 Installation Steps 3 3 1 Hard Drive Installation 3 3 2 Operating Your RTX Enclosure 3 3 2 1 Installing Thunderbolt Drivers 4 3 2 2 Install ATTO ConfigTool 4 3 2 3 Configuring RAID 4 4 Customizing a RAID Setup 5 5 Configuring Drive Redundancy 5 5 1 Create a Hot Spare Pool 5 5 2 Enable Auto Rebuild 6 6 Change RAID Group Properties 6 7 Recovering From A ...

Page 3: ...t commonly used by those seeking an optimal balance of speed and data safety however ATTO DVRAID is optimized for applications such as video production that require a high data transfer rate RAID Level Description Required No of Drives Fault Tolerance JBOD Known as Just a Bunch Of Disks This is not a type of RAID as each disk is created with its own inde pendent volume There is no data protection ...

Page 4: ...g the included Thunderbolt cable d Flip the power switch on the rear of the unit to turn on the RTX enclosure 3 2 1 Installing Thunderbolt Drivers a Download the appropriate Thunderstream SC 3808E driver for your operating system from the RTX800 TR product page www cru inc com products RTX800 TR php b On Windows machines open the ZIP file and run the included EXE file Press the Unzip button and th...

Page 5: ...d click on Delete Hot Spares 4 Customizing a RAID Setup a After following the steps in Section 3 2 3 select HDD Group and click OK b Enter the name for the new RAID group in the Name field The name must be unique and no more than 14 characters c Select the RAID level from the Level drop down box See Section 2 1 for a list and description of the available RAID levels d Select the interleave value u...

Page 6: ...ng rebuild Section 7 2 Data Recovery RAID 4 RAID 5 Error on one drive Section 7 1 1 Automatic Replace ment or Section 7 1 2 Manual Re placement Mistaken replacement of a good drive when another member of its RAID group has failed Section 7 1 3 Recovering from Replacement of a Wrong Drive Error during rebuild Section 7 2 Data Recovery Errors on two or more drives Section 7 2 Data Recovery 5 2 Enabl...

Page 7: ...o way to put this RAID group back online Once the data is backed up use only good drives to create a new RAID group and then restore the data to it RAID 6 Errors on one or two drives Section 7 1 1 Automatic Replace ment or Section 7 1 2 Manual Re placement Mistaken replacement of good drive s when other members of the RAID group have failed Section 7 1 3 Recovering from Replacement of a Wrong Driv...

Page 8: ...used 8 RAID Notifications RAID event notifications can be configured using the Notifications tab in the host system properties panel within the ATTO ConfigTool a From the Device Listing panel on the left expand the list and select the computer that your RTX is plugged into If the RTX enclosure is plugged into the computer you are currently using select localhost b Select the Notifications tab that...

Page 9: ...ol Service will attempt to connect to the email server using the SSL protocol When unchecked all notification emails will be unencrypted when sent Port The port number of the email server Notification Addresses Input the email addresses that the notification emails will be sent into these three text fields Each field may contain more than one address each separated by a comma Each text field can b...

Page 10: ...fsite Without an effective backup strategy recovering data may be impossible or the cost of data recovery may be quite expensive The CRU warranty does not cover costs associated with data loss nor do the warranties of other data storage manufacturers Plan accordingly and backup data to minimize downtime Box labeled C in the picture below says Not Initialized you ll need to initialize the volume be...

Page 11: ...authorized to make any modification extension or addition to this warranty In no event will CRU or its suppliers be liable for any costs of procurement of substitute products or services lost profits loss of information or data computer malfunction or any other special indirect consequential or incidental damages arising in any way out of the sale of use of or inability to use any CRU product or s...

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