Hydra S2 User Guide
If the total ca
city
s not
upport single
volumes over 2TB,
set the 2TB switch
t
w
s
(
pa
exceeds 2TB and
your Operating
System doe
s
o position B and it
ill automatically
plit the volumes
A+B / C+D).
For the FAST mode,
hard drives of
identical capacities
are recommended.
If different, the total
amount of the
pace that can be
used will depend on
the drive with the
smallest capa ity.
The drives show up as one large single volume. Spanning is an
cross the drives.
s
c
BIG (JBOD spanning)
array (not RAID) that is written sequentially a
By itself, it does not provide any performance or redundancy
benefits. Use this if you have installed 1-4 hard drives with
different capacities.
FAST (RAID 0 sstriping)
The drives show up as one large single volume. This mode
quires 4 identical drives to implement. Used where speed is
e primary objective, RAID Level 0 (also called striping) is not
redundant. This form of array splits each piece of data across
ents; since data is written without any form of
ll
re
th
the drives in segm
parity data-checking, it allows for the fastest data transfer of a
other modes. However, if one drive becomes damaged, the
whole array can become corrupted.
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