DVS ProntoXway, Hardware Manual

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ProntoXway Hardware Guide
5.1.4 Formatting the Main Storage
This section provides some information you should observe if you want
to format the main storage of the DVS system.
The DVS system uses several hard disks combined to a stripe set as the
location where to store the video data. If you want to format the hard
disk array, please observe the following:
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If appropriate, switch on the system and log on with administrative
rights.
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Select the appropriate tool to format hard disks, for example, a
standard file manager.
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Before initiating a format, configure the formatting process to the
following:
– Activate the ’Quick Format’ option to speed up the formatting
process.
– Select the file format ’NTFS’ to format the stripe set.
– Specify 64 KB as the allocation unit size.
– Assign as the volume label the name
Xway-Storage-XXXX
(with
XXXX
standing for the capacity of the main storage in
gigabyte) to the stripe set.
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Next start the formatting.
Once the formatting process is finished, you can select the hard disk ar-
ray as a normal disk drive (volume) in a standard file manager and use
it for your data again.
In general, a configuration and formatting of hard disks is part
of how the operating system manages hard disks. The follow-
ing provides some hints only. Further details and descriptions
can be found in the documentation of the operating system or
the respective tool.
A formatting will erase all existing data on the hard disks.
Some DVS maintenance tools depend on a correct drive
letter (
V:\
) and name for the storage of the DVS system.
Do not activate the ’Enable Compression’ check box.
For performance reasons it is strongly recommended to disable
the ’Indexing Service’ of the main storage (the formatted stripe
set) via its properties in a file manager.