Spectra nTier500, User Manual

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Chapter 1 — System Overview
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OMPONENTS
The following sections show the locations of and briefly describe the
nTier500’s major front and rear panel components.
Front Panel
Figure 2 shows the components on the front panel of the nTier500 with the
front cover removed.
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Figure 1 The front view of the nTier500 (front cover removed).
Status LEDs Power USB port
Data drives
System drives
Drive blanks
Component Description
Front cover (Not
shown) Keyed locks on each side of the front cover prevent unauthorized access to the
data drives.
Power button
The recessed power button controls the main AC power for the nTier500. A
blue LED indicates that the power is on.
Status LEDs The status LEDs are reserved for future use.
Universal Serial Bus
(USB) port The USB port can be used to connect a USB drive to the nTier500 for saving
configurations and uploading firmware packages. If desired, you can use the
port to connect a USB keyboard or mouse to the nTier500 application server.
RAID-1 protected
system drives Two RAID 1 protected disk drives provide the dedicated storage for the
Windows Storage Server operating system and additional application software.
RAID-6 protected
data drives
The nTier500 includes up to sixteen high-performance disk drives mounted on
individual drive sleds. The drives are preconfigured as a single NTFS-
formatted RAID 6 NAS volume.
The drive sleds slide into bays in the front of the nTier500 enclosure and lock in
place. The front of each drive sled has a handle for removing the sled from the
enclosure and a latch for locking the drive sled in place. LEDs on each drive
sled indicate the status of the drive.
Drive blanks
When fewer than 16 drives are installed drive blanks installed in the unused
drive bays to prevent contaminates for entering the enclosure and to maintain
proper air flow. The drive blanks do not contain drives.