M-300 and M-700 Appliance Overview
Item
Component
Description
4
Network activity LEDs
Blinking green indicates network activity.
5
Hard-disk drive (HDD) LED
Blinking yellow indicates IDE channel activity (SAS/
SATA drive) on the front log drives.
6
Power LED
Solid green indicates that the appliance is powered
on.
7
Reset button
Press this button to reboot the appliance.
8
Power button
Press this button to power on or power off the
appliance. Powering off the appliance with this
button puts the appliance in standby power mode.
To completely power off the appliance, you must
disconnect the AC power cords from both power
supplies.
9
Hard-disk drives (HDDs)
Disk drive bays and HDDs used for log storage. By
default, the M-300 ships with four HDDs installed
in drive bays A1/A2 and B1/B2. Each pair of drives
are in a RAID 1 configuration (A1-A2 is a RAID 1
pair and B1-B2 is a RAID 1 pair).
For details on storage capacity, refer to the
10
Hard-disk drive (HDD) LEDs
Status LEDs—two for each log drive:
•
Top LED
—Flashing blue indicates drive activity.
•
Bottom LED
—Solid red indicates a log drive
failure.
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