Rosewill RSV-S8, User Manual

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Server RSV-S8 User Manual
1 WELCOME
RSV-S8 enhances your data storage by combining advanced RAID1 features typically seen on high-end
data systems with low cost/high capacity Serial ATA drives. By using industry standard SATA drives and
Silicon Image Host Bus Adapters, you can achieve extraordinarily low costs while remaining assured that
your data is protected against hardware failure.
1.1 PRECAUTION
Please read the safe precautions carefully before you using RSV-S8 storage appliance. Ensure that you use
the product correctly according to the procedure described in this guide.
The following safety precautions are intended to remind you to operate the product safely and correctly.
Please read and ensure that you understand them before you proceed to the other sections of this guide.
Do not attempt to disassemble or alter any part of the product that is not describe in this guide.
Do not allow the product to come into contact with water or other liquids.
In the event that water or other liquids enter the interior, immediately unplug the product from the computer.
Continued use of the product may result in fire or electrical shock. Please consult your product distributor
or the closest support center.
Do not handle the product near a heat source or expose them to direct flame or heat.
Never place the product in close to equipment generating storage electromagnetic fields.
Exposure to strong magnetic fields may cause malfunctions or corrupt data.
Can’t operate properly under Windows 3.x/ 95 / 98SE/ ME/ NT.
Hard disk drive is not including.
1.2 FEATURES
1.2.1 DATA SECURITY
The RSV-S8 software driver includes support for monitoring to predict suspect drives.
RSV-S8 provides our highest commitment to data security through the use of RAID architecture to back up
and protect data. RAID levels 1, 10, and 5 provide data security. RSV-S8 supports sophisticated sparing
support so that hardware failure risk can be minimized by automatically regenerating the failed disk’s data
on a backup disk. The RSV-S8 software driver includes support for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology (S.M.A.R.T.
2) to predict disk failures. Drives can be moved between controllers without losing data.
1.2.2 DATA PERFORMANCE
The RSV-S8 can also increase storage throughput by combining the throughput of multiple drives into a
single volume. RAID levels 1, 10, and 5 support this ability.
Furthermore, each volume can be tailored to provide the best performance for the data contained on that
disk.
1.2.3 DATA VERSATILITY
The RSV-S8 software driver also supports Contiguous and Concatenated drives for applications which do
not require increased security or performance.
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