Tandberg Data FS-1600, FS-1610 RAID Volume Calculation, System Volume SV, Data Volume DV

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Tandberg DataRAID configuraion

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3.1.1.System Volume (SV)

This volume is organized as a RAID 0+1 volume. This volume includes the operating system image (Windows® Storage Server 2003). The minimum recommended size for this volume is 10 GB (default). The RAID level can be customized using the RAID controller BIOS or web-based RAID manager. The web-based RAID manager is only available after OS installation or recovery. For more information on how to use the RAID Volume Configuration utility, see “RAID Management” on 5.2.

3.1.2.Data Volume (DV)

The remaining hard drives space can be organized as the Data Volume using RAID 5 or other RAID level definable by user. For a FS-1600 Series NAS appliance installed with four 250 GB hard drives, the data volume size can be set to 735 GB using the recommended RAID and Volume settings.

3.2.RAID Volume Calculation

Depending on the hard drive capacity, the System Volume and Data Volume capacity can have different capacity sizes. A simple formula to calculate Data Volume size (DV) per RAID level is shown in the table below (where SV is the size of the System Volume in gigabytes) based on Tandberg Data’s recommended settings:

RAID Level

Formula

 

 

5

DV = {[(Per HDD capacity × 4) – 2 × SV] ÷ 4} × 3

0+1

DV = {[(Per HDD capacity × 4) – 2 × SV] ÷ 4} × 2

0

DV = (Per HDD capacity × 4) – 2 × SV

 

 

Refer to the following table for changing the Data Volume of your hard drive or changing the default configuration setting according to your Data Volume size preference:

HDD Capacity

System

Data Volume

Data Volume

Data Volume

(GB)

Volume (GB)

RAID 5 (GB)

RAID10 (GB)

RAID 0 (GB)

 

 

 

 

 

500

10

1485

990

1980

250

10

735

490

980

 

 

 

 

 

Use the Serial-ATA II RAID controller BIOS change the system volume size and RAID level of your hard drive. For more information, see “RAID Management” on 5.2.

The Serial-ATA II RAID controller also supports additional RAID level e.g. 6 and since the FS-1600 Series NAS appliance accommodates a maximum of 16 HDD, the flexibility of RAID configurations is up to the user entirely. Please see the Serial-ATA II RAID User Guide for more details.

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Tandberg Viking FS-1600 Series NAS Hardware User Manual

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