Rosewill RSV-S4-X user manual

4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X

User Manual

Contents

Main 4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5 HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual Page Content Page Page 1 WELCOME 1.1 PRECAUTION 1.2 FEATURES 1.2.1 DATA SECURITY 1.2.2 DATA PERFORMANCE 1.2.3 DATA VERSATILITY 1.3 EASE OF USE 1.4 SPECIFICATIONS 1.5 SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS 1.6 PRODUCT CONTENTS 2 INTRODUCTION TO RAID 2.1 RAID VOLUMES 2.2 SEGMENTING DISKS 2.3 RAID LEVELS 2.3.1 DISK STRIPING (RAID 0) 2.3.2 DISK MIRRORING (RAID 1) 2.3.3 DISK MIRRORING AND STRIPING (RAID 10) 2.3.4 PARITY RAID (RAID 5) 2.3.5 CONCATENATION 2.3.6 SINGLE DRIVE / SEGMENT 2.4 RAID VOLUME STATUS A RAID volume can be in any one of the following statuses. 3 INSTALLATION 3.1 COMPONENTS 3.2 INSTALLING HARDWARE 3.3 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS 2000 3.3.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER Page Page Page Page Page 3.3.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 3.4 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS XP (32/64-BIT) 3.4.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER Page Page 3.4.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY Page Page Page 3.4.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP 3.4.4 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS ON WINDOWS XP 32-BIT Page Page Page Page Page Page 3.4.5 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS ON WINDOWS XP 64-BIT Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 3.5.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY Page Page Page 3.5.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP 3.5.4 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 3.6 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS VISTA (32/64-BIT) 3.6.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER Page 3.6.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY Page Page Page 3.6.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP 3.6.4 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS Page Page Page Page Page Page 4 SATA RAID5 ARRAY MANAGER 4.1 OVERVIEW 4.2 CREATING RAID GROUPS 4.2.1 CONTIGUOUS RAID GROUPS 4.2.2 CONCATENATED RAID GROUPS 4.2.3 STRIPED RAID GROUPS Page 4.2.6 PARITY RAID GROUPS 4.2.7 RAID GROUPS OVERVIEW RAID Groups allow Enter values in all fields and click Create to create the RAID Group. Page 4.3 ADDITIONAL MENU COMMANDS The commands are documented on the pages that follow. The Main menu commands are shown below File Device RAID Group Window Legacy Support Help 4.3.1 CONFIGURATION Page Page Page Page 4.3.2 EXIT This command terminates the SATARAID5 program. 4.3.3 CREATE SPARE This menu option displays a dialog box to select (highlight) one or more spare drives to delete. 4.3.4 DELETE SPARE Page 4.3.7 MAKE PASS-THRU 4.3.8 DEVICE SUMMARY 4.3.9 CREATE RAID GROUP 4.3.10 REBUILD RAID GROUP Page Page 4.3.14 TASK MANAGER Page Page 4.3.15 EVENT LOG 4.3.16 RESOURCES 4.3.17 CREATE LEGACY RAID GROUP 4.3.18 HELP TOPICS 4.3.19 ABOUT