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Use the Blackjack adapter for SATA 6Gbs drives and the AAMUX adapter for 3 Gbs SATA drives.
Figure 15: SATA disk drive mounted in carrier with Blackjack adapter
Figure 16: SATA disk drive mounted in carrier with AAMUX adapter
NUMBER OF DRIVES REQUIRED
The table below shows the number of drives required for each RAID level
Level
Number of Drives
Level
Number of Drives
RAID 0
1 or more
RAID 6
4 to 32*
RAID 1
2 only
RAID 10
4 or more**
RAID 1E
2 or more
RAID 30
6 or more
RAID 3
3 to 32*
RAID 50
6 or more
RAID 5
3 to 32*
RAID 60
8 or more
* A JBOD expansion unit may be required.
** Must be an even number of drives.