Promise Technology m210p User Manual
VTrak M310p, M210p Product Manual
10
Install Disk Drives
You can populate the VTrak with 1.5 GB and 3.0 GB SATA drives.
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VTrak M310p supports up to 12 disk drives
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VTrak M210p supports up to 8 disk drives
All VTrak M310p or M210p models provide the RAID configurations listed below.
See Chapter 7, page 179 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.
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
12
RAID 1
2
2*
RAID 1E
3
12
RAID 5
3
12
RAID 6
4
12
RAID 10
4
12
RAID 50
6
12
* RAID 1 logical drives work in matched pairs. VTrak
M310p supports up to six (6) RAID 1 logical drives.
M210p supports up to four (4) RAID 1 logical drives.
M210p 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.
Use of other types of screws can damage the adjacent drives.