Chapter 2: Hardware Installation
Hard Drive Installation
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Each shipping package is separated into the upper and lower levels.
Upper level box contents:
•
Sixteen (16) drive canisters
Lower level contents:
Three (3) boxes are placed in the lower level. One (1)
box contains the enclosure chassis with all the pre-installed components.
The other two (2) boxes contain power cords and accessory items.
Accessory items include an RS-232C serial port cable, a null modem, a
printed copy of
Quick Installation Guide
, screws, and a CD containing the
RAIDWatch
Manager software and its manual,
Installation and Hardware
Reference Manual
(this document),
Application Note
, and the
Fibre-to-
SATA RAID Subsystem Operation Manual
(Firmware).
2.5.1 Preinstalled
Components
Following are the pre-installed components:
1 - LCD keypad panel
2 - Forearm handles
1 - Backplane board
2 - Controller modules
2 - DDR RAM DIMM module(s)
2 - BBUs (Each along with a RAID controller)
2 - PSUs (with cooling modules)
2.5.2 Components to be Installed
You must install the following components:
Drive trays with integrated hard drives
2.6 Hard Drive Installation
2.6.1 Hard Drive Installation Prerequisites
Hard drives have been pre-integrated into drive trays for you. If a hard
drives must be replaced, purchase it from Rorke Data. When purchasing the
hard drives, the following factors should be considered:
Capacity (MB/GB):
Use drives with the same capacity. RAID arrays use a
“least-common-denominator” approach meaning that the maximum usable
capacity in each member drive is the maximum capacity of the smallest
drive. Choose large capacity drives of the same storage capacity.
