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Effective Utilization of Drives
Using RAID 0 only is a cost effective way to increase performance by allowing data to be
read and written faster. However, RAID 0 increases the risk of losing data as there is no
protection mechanism employed. Mirroring or RAID 1 is used to protect a user from los-
ing data from a single drive failing, but 50% of the capacity is lost to the mirrored copy.
RAID 3 provides the maximum performance and protection by using only a single drive to
protect several data striped data drives. RAID 3 provides the benefits of striped perform-
ance and protection using an on-the-fly protection engine. PNY highly recommends using
the RAID 3 configuration to fully protect all data stored on the array from a single drive
failure, especially digital camera images, downloaded music files or captured video files
that may not be backed up to another location of media.
Supported RAID Configurations
The S-CURE™ card supports multiple array configurations for maximum flexibility. Each
array may be used either as an additional storage drive in your system or as the boot
drive.
An array consists of multiple disks, but appears to the host as a single large drive. For
example, if you have three ATA 100/133 (UDMA 5 mode) drives configured in a RAID 3
configuration, each of capacity 200 Gigabytes, the host will see a large single 400
Gigabyte drive (two for data and one for protection, the latter being invisible to the user).
Each RAID 3 drive will be mapped by the host as single disk number (e.g. Disk 0, Disk
1).
Supported RAID Configurations
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PNY Storage Manager
The PNY Storage Manager application provides a convenient and easy to use Windows
interface that supports monitoring, status checking, creation, deletion, rebuild and
advanced options for your S-CURE™ card.
Install/Un-install
Insert the PNY Installation CD into the system’s CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. The instal-
lation should auto start. If not, from the Start menu, navigate via the Run menu to the
setup.exe program on the CD and run setup.exe. Un-install of the application can be per-
formed by re-running setup.exe or re-inserting the installation CD and selecting the
“remove” option.
Use the default options to install the application and then reboot the system.
The application auto loads after a Windows restart and log-on by the user. It can also be
run by navigating to the Start Menu/Programs/SyncRAID Utility directory and selecting
the ”PNY Storage Manager” application icon or by clicking on the desktop shortcut
created during CD auto installation.
Storage Manager Wizard
The PNY Storage Manager includes a wizard that will detect when you attach new drives
to your storage processing card, and will automatically recommend configurations for you.
This wizard can be cancelled at any time. See ‘creating your array’ for more detail on how
to use the wizard.
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