Operations

MediaVault 4440 User Manual

TABLE 5-5.Mode Functions

 

 

Sector

Usable

 

If a Drive

Name

Mode*

Size

Capacity

Description and Advantages

Fails...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uses the highest data rate portions of the disk

Data is

 

 

 

 

drives.**

preserved

RAID 6

 

2048

 

There is access to 40% of the total capacity

 

@ 4K HD

4

40%

 

bytes

with redundancy to protect your data. This

 

Turbo

 

 

 

 

 

 

mode stripes data across 8 drives, with 2 drives

 

 

 

 

 

as parity drives for redundancy. This mode

 

 

 

 

 

uses a 4096 sector size and uses the higher

 

 

 

 

 

data portion of the disk drives.

 

 

 

 

 

Uses the highest data rate portions of the disk

Data is

 

 

 

 

drives.**

preserved

RAID 6

 

512

 

There is access to 40% of the total capacity

 

@ 512

5

40%

 

bytes

with redundancy to protect your data. This

 

HD Turbo

 

 

 

 

 

 

mode stripes data across 8 drives, with 2 drives

 

 

 

 

 

as parity drives for redundancy. This mode

 

 

 

 

 

uses a 512 sector size and uses the higher

 

 

 

 

 

data portion of the disk drives.

 

 

 

This mode will start a write operation for all disk drives in the array. This function

Wipe

6

wipes out the first and last 256 sectors of an array. When the function is

 

 

 

finished a series of 3 beeps is sounded.

 

Diagnostic

7

The diagnostic tests are, in sequence: RAID 0 read test, RAID 0 write test, and read/

tests

 

write tests on individual drives. The cycle is repeated until stopped by the user.

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAID 6

8

512

80%

Reserved for future use.

Data is

@ 512

bytes

 

 

 

preserved

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAID 0

9

4096

100%

Reserved for future use.

Data is

@4K

bytes

 

 

 

lost

Reserved

15

Reserved for future use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Make sure to “double beep” to set the mode. See the “double beep” discussion on page 5-12.

**Data striped across eight drives, plus two drives for redundant information. Usable storage is the sum of eight drives.

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