SAFEStor User Guide
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Chapter 1 – Introduction
Thank you for purchasing your Xerox SAFEStor RAID System. Designed for speed, reliability,
compatibility and performance. The RAID System is easy to install, providing an outstanding
and versatile solution to meet all your data storage requirements. The unit is available with either
Ultra-320 parallel SCSI or 4 gigabit Fibre Channel Host Interfaces utilizing Serial ATA (SATA)
disk technology.
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 B enefits
The Xerox SAFEStor 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.
•
Direct Attached Storage
–
High-speed local storage device for dedicated workstations.
•
Server Attached Storage
–
High-speed storage device attached to your server.
Configurations
The Xerox SAFEStor RAID Array is available in two capacity point configurations:
U320 SCSI models have the following part numbers:
XRX-2PSQX-651-U4-3: SAFEStor RAID, Three 250GB drives, RAID 5 formatted
capacity: 500GB
XRX-2PSQX-651-U4-6: SAFEStor RAID, Six 250GB drives, five in RAID set, RAID 5
formatted capacity: 1TB, One HOT spare
Fibre Channel models have the following part numbers:
XRX-2PSQX-651-U4-3: SAFEStor RAID, Three 250GB drives, RAID 5 formatted
capacity: 500GB
XRX-2PSQX-651-U4-6: SAFEStor RAID, Six 250GB drives, five in RAID set, RAID 5
formatted capacity: 1TB, One HOT spare
In addition SCSI models can be configured with tape libraries, the corresponding part numbers
are:
XRX-2PSQX-651-U4-3-VXA
SAFEStor RAID, three 250GB drives, 500GB
formatted capacity, with VXA tape library
XRX-2PSQX-651-U4-6-VXA
SAFEStor RAID, six 250GB drives, 1TB formatted
capacity , one HOT spare drive, with VXA tape library