Qubex User Guide
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Chapter 1 – Introduction
Thank you for purchasing your Rorke Qubex System. Designed for speed, reliability,
compatibility and performance. The Rorke Qubex System is easy to install, providing an
outstanding and versatile solution to meet all your data storage requirements. This user guide
covers both the SCSI (GQUB6-U4S) and the Fibre Channel (GQUB6-FCS4) products.
Part numbers
Qubex is available in Fibre Channel or SCSI versions with dual powers supplies. Each of the top
level part numbers are shown in the table below:
This User Guide presumes that you are familiar with standard computer operations including
managing and organizing files and folders. If you are unfamiliar with these operations, please
consult your computers User Guide.
Features and Benefits
Rorke Qubex RAID Series offers an extremely versatile and low cost solution, perfect for any
End-User environment where high performance, problem free mass storage is required, including:
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Back-up storage.
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Direct Attached Storage – High-speed local storage device for dedicated workstations.
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Server Attached Storage – High-speed storage device attached to your server.
Features include:
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RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 6 or JBOD
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RAID set migration
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Dual 4Gbit Fibre Channel or U320 SCSI interface
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Up to 6 SATA II hot-swap hard drives
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Push button LCD panel for easy setup and configuration
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WEB based RAID management via onboard Ethernet
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Whisper quiet fan
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O/S independent and transparent
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Optimized for high performance, content creation
Understanding RAID
RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. A RAID system consists of an
array of multiple independent hard disk drives that provide high performance and fault tolerance.
The RAID controller implements several levels of the Berkeley RAID technology. An appropriate
RAID level is selected when the volume sets are defined or created. This decision is based on
disk capacity, data availability (fault tolerance or redundancy) and disk performance.
GQUB6-U4S/D
Six Bay U320 Host-SATA II Drive interface, dual power supply
GQUB6-FCS4/D Six Bay dual 4 gigabit Fibre Channel Host-SATA II Drive interface,
dual power supply
