Areca ARC-1110, Руководство пользователя

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Contents
1. Introduction .............................................................. 10
1.1 Overview ....................................................................... 1 0
1.2 Features ........................................................................ 12
1.3 RAID Concept ................................................................. 1 5
1.3.1 RAID Set ................................................................... 1 5
1.3.2 Volume Set ................................................................ 1 5
1.3.3 Ease of Use Features ................................................. 16
1.3.3.1 Instant Availability/Background Initialization ............ 16
1.3.3.2 Array Roaming ..................................................... 16
1.3.3.3 Online Capacity Expansion ..................................... 17
1.3.3.4 Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration ............. 19
1.3.3.5 Online Volume Expansion ........................................ 19
1.4 High availability .............................................................. 2 0
1.4.1 Global Hot Spares ...................................................... 2 0
1.4.2 Hot-Swap Disk Drive Support ....................................... 21
1.4.3 Auto Declare Hot-Spare .............................................. 21
1.4.4 Auto Rebuilding ......................................................... 21
1.4.5 Adjustable Rebuild Priority ........................................... 22
1.5 High Reliability ................................................................ 2 3
1.5.1 Hard Drive Failure Prediction ........................................ 2 3
1.5.2 Auto Reassign Sector .................................................. 2 3
1.5.3 Consistency Check ...................................................... 24
1.6 Data Protection ............................................................... 24
1.6.1 BATTERY BACKUP ...................................................... 24
1.6.2 RECOVERY ROM ......................................................... 2 5
1.7 Understanding RAID ........................................................ 2 5
1.7.1 RAID 0 ...................................................................... 2 5
1.7.2 RAID 1 ...................................................................... 26
1.7.3 RAID 1E .................................................................... 27
1.7.4 RAID 3 ...................................................................... 27
1.7.5 RAID 5 ...................................................................... 28
1.7.6 RAID 6 ...................................................................... 29
2. Hardware Installation ............................................... 31
2.1 Before Your begin Installation ........................................... 3 1
2.2 Board Layout .................................................................. 3 2
2.3 Installation ..................................................................... 3 7
3. McBIOS RAID Manager .............................................. 53