VR-N100U USERS MANUAL
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2.3. VR-N100U Hardware Overview
The VR-N100U comes preconfigured in a 19” 1U Rackmount enclosure. The embedded industrial server board with
processor, heat sink, fan, memory, non-volatile flash disk and LCD display have all been installed and passed quality control
prior to shipping. Although the design of the board is v ery compact, it provides all of the key standard components plus many
customized features. The VR-N100U board is the next generation industrial grade motherboard that was designed from the
ground-up with storage, performance and flexibility in mind. This all-in-one server board is the most powerful appliance
platform on the market, offering a vast array of on board storage an d connectivity components in a very small form-factor. T he
latest VR-N100U operating s ystem an d appl i c ations are inst alle d and teste d on the non-v olatile fl ash dis k. In additio n, the har d
disk drives have also been tested and configured as a RAID-5 set prior to shipping for all VR-N100U 19” 1U Rackmount
Systems.
2.3.1 Hardware Layout
The custom 19” 1U Rackmount enclosure has been designed to provide easy installation for all of the VR-N100U hardware
components. The front-half is designed to integrate the LCD display, up to four fixed hard drives, and optional slim CD/DVD
drive that is currently not supported by VR-N100U. The rear-half of the enclosure is designed to integrate the high quality
power supply, industrial embedded server b oard and optional hard driv e or expansion car d. To ensure good ventilati on to keep
the system cool, the VR-N100U hardware is designed to support air ventilation holes, five cooling fans and includes custom
multi-drive cabling that offers minimum air flow restriction within the system.