Product manual

Installing Physical Drives

The VTrak Ex30 RAID subsystems and JBOD expansion units support:

• SAS and SATA physical drives

• 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch physical drives

• Hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD)

For a list of supported physical drives, download the latest compatibility list from

PROMISE support: http://www.promise.com/support/.

Number of Drives Required

The table below shows the number of drives required for each RAID level

Drive Slot Numbering

You can install any suitable disk drive into any slot in the enclosure. The diagram

below shows how VTrak’s drive slots are numbered. Slot numbering is reflected

in the WebPAM PROe and CLU user interfaces.

Figure 6. VTrak E830f/s drive slot numbering

Level Number of Drives Level Number of Drives

RAID 0 1 or more RAID 6 4 to 32*

RAID 1 2 only RAID 10 4 or more**

RAID 1E 2 or more RAID 50 6 or more

RAID 5 3 to 32* RAID 60 8 or more

* E330f/s: Drive counts above 12 require a JBOD expansion unit.

** Must be an even number of drives.