Safety Precautions and Disclaimers

SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

Please read this section carefully before proceeding. These precautions explain the correct and safe use of this device, thereby helping to prevent injury to you or others, and also help you to minimize the risk of damaging the device.

Warnings

Always follow the basic warnings listed here to avoid the risk of serious injury or death from electrical shock, short-circuiting, fire, and other hazards. These warnings include, but are not limited to:

•With the exception of the user-swappable parts, do not attempt to disassemble or modify the enclosure. If this device appears to be malfunctioning, contact Sonnet Customer Service.

•Do not drop the enclosure or any of its drive modules; dropping or mishandling of the enclosure or drive modules may result in a malfunction.

•Do not insert your fingers or foreign objects inside the enclosure; take particular care when small children are present.

•Do not expose the device to rain, use it near water or containers that contain liquids which might spill into any openings, or in damp or wet conditions.

•If unusual smells, sounds, or smoke come from the device, or if liquids enter it, switch it off immediately and unplug it from the electrical outlet.

•Follow the instructions in this manual carefully; contact Sonnet

Customer Service for additional advice not covered in this User’s Guide.

DISCLAIMERS

Drive Usage:

Sonnet Technologies has qualified specific hard drives for use in

Fusion RX1600RAID storage systems. These drives were chosen

for their superior performance, error handling, and reliability

characteristics, especially when used in RAID groups. One important difference between these drives and standard hard drives is how quickly each handles read errors—these qualified drives attempt to recover from errors for just a few seconds, while standard hard drives may take minutes. Because RAID controller cards and software-based RAID schemes allow only a very short time for drives to recover before dropping them from the RAID group, hard drive manufacturers recommend against using standard hard drives in RAID storage systems. The hard drives qualified by Sonnet also feature improved vibration characteristics that influence and support storage reliability. We recommend the use of these Enterprise/RAID edition hard drives and select, Sonnet certified desktop hard drives in your Fusion storage system to ensure system reliability and performance.

STANDARD DRIVES MAY NOT BE SUPPORTED AND MAY DEGRADE SYSTEM RELIABILITY AND PERFORMANCE. Check the Sonnet Web site for the latest list of qualified hard drives.

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