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3-1 Tandberg Viking FS-1600 Series NAS Hardware User Manual

3. RAID Configuration

3.1. Hardware RAID Layout

The FS-1600 Series NAS appliance uses ARC-1160 (FS-1600) or ARC-

1261ML (FS-1610) Serial-ATA RAID II controller that can aggregate a

maximum number of 16 HDD into user definable RAID levels. The minimum

number of required HDD is one (or RAID 0). Tandberg Data recommends

using a minimum of 4 HDD (Serial-ATA II type) in order to kick start an

implementation. Subsequent HDD can be added into an already configured

RAID set or a new RAID set. Please refer to the respective sections in RAID

controller User Guide for details.

Upon boot up of the FS-1600 Series NAS appliance, the RAID controller

BIOS can be accessed by pressing the F6 or TAB key. It is recommended

that a RAID set that comprises of a 4 HDD is created first before creating

subsequent Volume sets.

In this case Tandberg Data recommends two logical Volume sets consisting

of System Volume and Data Volume to be created within the RAID set. The

two logical volumes are to be configured to RAID levels 0+1 and 5. The

System Volume, installed with the host operating system (Windows

Storage

Server 2003), is organized as RAID 0+1 and the Data Volume is organized

as RAID 5. This is to allow OS redundancy if more than one HDD fails.

The Volume set layout for the appliance is illustrated below.

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