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| Fusion storage system activity lights are always on with Seagate ES.2 (Enterprise) drives installed in the drive bays. | Oct-22-10 |
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| How do I set up a RAID 0 striped array under Windows XP Professional or Vista? | Mar-23-10 |
| To create a striped array you must first have at least two drives with a portion of 'unpartitioned space' free. The largest stripe you can create will be twice the size of the smallest unused space on either of the disks. If you have two disks, one with 500GB of unpartitioned space and one with 750GB, the largest striped array you could create would be 2 x 500GB = 1000GB, as the area of space used by the stripe on each disk must be the same.
The first step is to convert both disks from basic to dynamic disks within Windows. A dynamic disk is a disk that contains an additional database of other dynamic disks on the system. Dynamic disks can only be read by Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista, and the various Windows Server operating systems, and are required to create software RAID arrays within Windows.
To convert a disk from basic to dynamic, follow these steps:
1) Right click the grey box on the left that contains the disk names (disk 1, disk 2, etc.) and select 'convert to dynamic disk'.
2) From the next window you can check both blank drives and click 'ok' to convert them.
3) Once both disks are listed as dynamic, right click the 'unpartitioned space' of either drive and select 'new volume.'
4) In the 'select volume type' window, select 'striped.' Add all disks you wish to use, then decide on the amount of space on both disks you wish to use for the striped volume you are about to create. If you wish, you use only part of each disk for the stripe, leaving the rest free for other uses.
5) Choose a drive letter or folder to use, and the method of formatting, and you are done. The striped array will format and be ready for use. |
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121 |
| Can I set up a RAID 1 mirrored array under Windows XP or Vista? | Mar-23-10 |
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138 |
| Unable to format hard drives after moving a Fusion storage system from a Mac to Windows computer. | Mar-23-10 |
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387 |
| How do I replace a failed drive under warranty if I'm in a sensitive/classified environment and can't send the old one back? | Mar-23-10 |
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450 |
| My storage shows 10% more capacity under OS X 10.6 than under OS X 10.5. Why? | Mar-24-10 |
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453 |
| Only the first drive of my Fusion D400Q, D500P, R400P, or R400Q is recognized when I connect via SATA. Why? | Mar-24-10 |
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459 |
| The performance of my drive array is significantly less than I expect. | Jun-14-11 |
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| What hard drives does Sonnet recommend for 4-drive desktop systems? | Nov-05-15 |
| In addition to specific drives that Sonnet has qualified, Sonnet recommends using hard disk drives that are qualified by the manufacturer for desktop NAS systems.
Drive Family Enterprise Warranty RPM Cache Rotational Reference
(years) (MB) Vibration
Compensation
HGST Deskstar NAS 3 7200 64-128 Yes www.hgst.com/hard-drives/internal-drive-kits/nas-desktop-drive-kit
HGST Ultrastar \u8730 5 7200 64 Yes www.hgst.com/hard-drives/internal-drive-kits/performance-drive-kits
Seagate NAS HDD 3 5900 64 (1) www.seagate.com/products/network-attached-storage/nas-drives/
Seagate Enterprise NAS \u8730 5 7200 128-256 Yes www.seagate.com/products/network-attached-storage/nas-drives/
Seagate Enterprise Cap. \u8730 5 7200 128-256 Yes www.seagate.com/products/network-attached-storage/nas-drives/
Toshiba Sonace I \u8730 3 7200 64 Yes toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/product/storage-products/specialty/md03acaxxxv.html
Toshiba Sonance II \u8730 3 5400 128 Yes toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/product/storage-products/specialty/md04abaxxxv.html
WD Red 3 5400 16-64 (2) www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/nas/
WD Red Pro 5 7200 64-128 Yes www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/nas/
WD Re \u8730 5 7200 32-128 Yes www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/nas/
(1) Rotational Vibration Tolerance
(2) 3D Active Balance Plus |
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872 |
| I upgraded the hard drives in my D500P to larger drives and only one drive is showing up. | Nov-29-15 |
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955 |
| Can I use Seagate Iron Wolf drives; or Hitchai and WD drives 8TB and larger? | May-31-18 |
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