Supero SUPER 370DDE, User Manual

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UPER 370DDE/370SDA User's Manual
Troubleshooting
Performance (RAID 0 Striping)
Supports the maximum performance. The storage capacity equals
the number of drives times the capacity of the smallest drive in the
disk array.
NOTE: FastTrak100 permits striped arrays using 1, 2, 3, or 4 drives
attached in Auto Setup mode.
Security (RAID 1 Mirroring, or RAID 0+1 Striping/Mirroring)
Creates a mirrored (or fault tolerant) array for data security.
NOTE: Under the Security setting, FastTrak100 permits two drives
to be used for a single Mirrored array or four drives to be used for a
Mirrored/Striped array in Auto Setup.
Capacity (Spanning)
Achieves the maximum amount of capacity by adding the sum of all
attached drives. The Stripe Block option does not apply.
Defining Typical Application Usage
Allows the user to choose the type of PC usage that will be performed
in order to optimize how FastTrak100 handles data blocks to enhance
performance. Your choice will determine the block size used. You may
choose from: A/V Editing (for audio/video applications, or any similar
application that requires large file transfers), Server (for numerous small
file transfers), or Desktop (a combination of large and small file sizes).
Using a “Hot” Spare Drive
If a third drive is attached as a “Slave” and is not assigned to a mirrored
two-drive disk array (one optimized for “Security”), it will be recognized
as a Spare Drive. Such a drive is immediately used as a “standby”
replacement. It is automatically added to an array once a disk member
of the array has been detected as “failed.” To restore fault tolerance as
quickly as possible, FastTrak100 begins to perform an automatic data
rebuild on the “spare” drive in the background without the need to
restart the system. At a later time, the failed drive can be physically
removed from the FastTrak100 card and an extra drive added in its
place to function as the “spare” drive.