Promise Technology VTM210 Installing Disk Drives, Drive Slot Numbering, Level Number of Drives

VTrak M610i, M310i, M210i Quick Start Guide

Step 3: Installing Disk Drives

You can populate the VTrak with 3.5-inch, 1.5 Gb/s or 3.0 Gb/s SATA drives. For optimal performance, install physical drives of the same model and capacity. The drives’ matched performance allows the logical drive to function better as a single drive. The table below shows the number of drives required for each RAID level.

Level	Number of Drives	Level	Number of Drives
RAID 0	1 or more	RAID 6	4 to 16
RAID 1	2 only	RAID 10	4 or more*
RAID 1E	2 or more	RAID 50	6 or more
RAID 5	3 to 16

* Must be an even number of drives.

Note

Unlike other VTrak models, the M610i, M310i, and M210i do not support Parallel ATA disk drives. There is no PATA-to-SATA adapter available for these models.

Drive Slot Numbering

You can install any suitable disk drive into any slot in the subsystem. The diagram below shows how VTrak’s drive slots are numbered. Slot numbering is reflected in the WebPAM PROe and CLU user interfaces.

Figure 10.VTrak M610i drive slot numbering

1		2		3		4
	5		6		7		8

9	10	11		12
13		14	15	16

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