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Preface
Welcome
Congratulations on the purchase of your new CR8e from nStor Corporation.
The nStor CR8e provides a superior fault-tolerant network storage solution in a
subsystem-based SAF-TE compliant RAID enclosure.
The CR8e is an eight drive enclosure designed to support Ultra Wide SCSI
(Fast-20) and Fast Wide SCSI protocols. The Ultra Wide SCSI (Fast-20) support
maintains SCSI bus data transfer rates up to 40 Mbytes/sec. The subsystem
supports both host system based RAID controllers, as well as an option for an
onboard Ultra SCSI-to-SCSI RAID controller.
The CR8e also provides an upgrade path to Ultra2 Low Voltage Differential
(LVD) SCSI technology and easily connects to the network attach storage module
to maintain its total cost of ownership.
The intelligent enclosure is compliant with SAF-TE version 1.0, an industry
standard, non-proprietary means to automatically integrate with peripheral
packaging that supports status signals, hot swapping drives and enclosure
monitoring. Combined with the enterprise-wide storage management software
from nStor, additional levels of fault tolerance can be maintained.