Addonics Technologies CDC5HXAES manual RAID Setting Notes, Using the Easy RAID Setting EZ

ADDONICS TECHNOLOGIES

Model: CDC5HXAES

All settings on the diagram shows

∙RAID mode setting modification is ENAABLED (SET)

∙Error buzzer function is DISABLED (BZS)

7.Power on the Cipher Tower.

8.Verify if the RAID array is detected by the system

a.If the 5-port HPM-XA is connected to the motherboard onboard SATA, on the CMOS setup utility, the raid array will display as

“Addonics H/W RAID5” if setup as a RAID5 array.

b.If the 5-port HPM-XA is connected to an eSATA host controller card, on the RAID BIOS, the raid array will display as

“Addonics H/W RAID0” if setup as a RAID0 array.

c.If booted into Windows, in Disk Drives under Device Manager, the raid array will display as “Addonics H/W LARGE” if setup as a RAID0 array.

9.Once raid array is verified, you can set back the RAID jumper setting back to default

or the diagram below where buzzer is ENABLED.

Note: On this setting, there is no jumper on SET.

RAID Setting Notes:

When 2 drives are connected to the HPM-XA, and J4 is set to this setting, the 2 drives will be configured as a 2-drive RAID1 array.

When 4 drives are connected to the HPM-XA, the 4 drives will be configured as a 4-drive RAID10 array.

Clone’s action is similar to RAID1. However, all of the hard drives will be mirrored. Clone mode is useful especially when users like to copy data from a source hard drive to the drives connected to the HPM-XA.

Notes on Spare Drives

Using the Easy RAID Setting (EZ)

In reference to the diagram, the auto-rebuilding to spare drive is

ENABLED (EZ)

When EZ mode is ENABLED, the degraded RAID group will start rebuilding automatically by using the existing spare drive.

*Spare drive can be either plugged before RAID building or a new drive can be plug as the spare drive when RAID rebuild is required.

A.Which port acts as a spare drive?

The last drive will automatically become the spare drive.

For a 3-drive RAID5 with spare:

Drives connected to SATA ports 1~3 belong to the active RAID5 array and drive connected to port 4 is the spare.

For a 4-drive RAID10 with spare:

Drives connected to SATA ports 1~4 belong to the active RAID10 array and drive connected to port 5 is the spare.

For a 2-drive RAID1 with spare:

Drives connected to SATA ports 1& 4 belong to the active RAID1 array and drive connected to port 5 is the spare.

B.When will rebuild action start?

∙When the raid fails and EZ is enabled, the HPM-XA will automatically rebuild the RAID group using the spare.

When the raid fails and EZ is disabled, the HPM-XA will NOT rebuild the raid group unless you install a good drive to replace the failed drive.