VTRAK M-CLASS Product Manual

VTrak M-Class Product Manual
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Install Disk Drives
You can populate the VTrak with 1.5 GB and 3.0 GB SATA drives.
VTrak M500f/i/p supports up to 15 disk drives
VTrak M300f/i/p supports up to 12 disk drives
VTrak M200f/i/p supports up to 8 disk drives
All VTrak M-Class models provide the RAID configurations listed below. See
Chapter 7, page 239 for a complete explanation of RAID on VTrak.
If you use different size disk drives in the same logical drive, the total size of the
logical drive will equal the size of the smallest disk drive times the number of
drives.
RAID Configuration
Number of disk drives
Minimum Maximum
RAID 0 1 15
RAID 1 2 2*
RAID 1E 3 15
RAID 5 3 15
RAID 10 4 14
RAID 50 6 15
* RAID 1 logical drives work in matched pairs. VTrak
M500f/i/p supports up to seven (7) RAID 1 logical drives.
M300f/i/p supports up to six (6) RAID 1 logical drives.
M200f/i/p supports up to four (4) RAID 1 logical drives.
Caution
Be sure to install the counter-sink screws supplied with the VTrak.
Use of other types of screws can damage the adjacent drives.