Sans Digital Towerraid 6G series, Detailed Manual

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Chapter 1 ‐ Features and Specifications
Hardware Specifications
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PCI Express 2.0 x4
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4x SATA 6Gb/s Ports
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Industry standard SATA/eSATA/Mini ‐ SAS connectors
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Directly supports 4 SATA devices / Up to 20 with port multiplier capable enclosure
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Backwards compatible with Sans Digital SATA RAID CONTROLLER’s
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Low Profile
Monitor, Alerts and LED Indicators
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Hard Drive LED Indicators (Activity and Failed)
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SMTP email notification for events and error reporting
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Alarm/Buzzer alerts for drive/array failure
Advanced RAID Features
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RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50, JBOD
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Redundant RAID Configuration for Array availability
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RAID Initialization Types ‐ Background, Foreground, Quick Initialization and Keep Old Data
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Spin Down Idle Disk
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S.M.A.R.T Support
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Auto Rebuild on spare drive
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Hot ‐ Plug and Hot ‐ Swap support
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Larger than 2 TB drive support
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Bootable RAID Array support
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Write Back or Write Through Cache support
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User friendly Browser ‐ based Management Interface
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Easy to use BIOS configuration Tool
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Linux Command Line Interface (CLI) ‐ Scriptable configuration tool
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Hot key (Ctrl+H) boot ‐ up RAID manager via BIOS
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Web browser ‐ based RAID management software (Web GUI)
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Command Line Interface (CLI)
Operating System Support
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Windows Server 2012, 2008, 2003
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Windows 8, 7, Vista
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Major Linux Distributions
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FreeBSD
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Mac OS X