AMS Venus T5 mini, User Manual

Page 1: ...2009 07 16 Page 1 Venus T5 Venus T5 SATA RAID User Manual...

Page 2: ...mation 25 4 DIP Switch and RAID Mode Cross Reference 28 Figures Figure 1 Tray Figure 4 Figure 2 Appearance Figure 4 Figure 3 Caddy Drive Drawer Install 4 Figure 4 Front Panel 5 Figure 5 Rear View 5 Fi...

Page 3: ...arts After Deleting All RAID 19 Figure 25 Email Notification and Event Settings 20 Figure 26 Select All Events Button and Clear All Events Button 20 Figure 27 Advanced RAID Configuration 21 Figure 28...

Page 4: ...apply change mode switch z LED indicators for System Ready HDD Error HDD Access Temperature fan z 8x8cm Fan X 2 High Low speed selectable z Reset switch or OTB switch for option z Color BLACK z Dim 21...

Page 5: ...fety Lock D11 Power LED D12 Power Safety Lock The safety lock prevent it bouncing out while HDD is working D13 120W Switching Power Supply Rear View see Figure 5 Figure 5 E1 Cooling Fan 1 8x8cm E2 Fan...

Page 6: ...UI window there are three buttons to be chosen for navigating the corresponding basic pages Those basic pages are RAID and Disk Information page Event Log Viewer page and Basic RAID Configuration page...

Page 7: ...2009 07 16 Page 7 Venus T5 Figure7 Basic Mode Figure 8 Advanced Mode...

Page 8: ...platform and their connected RAID and disks in a hierarchy view When the user selects a tree item the detail information of the selected item will be displayed in the right part All the disk and RAID...

Page 9: ...roller Information When the user move the mouse upon the Controller Information label it will be highlighted with red color and show a tool tip to tell that it could be clicked to identify the control...

Page 10: ...entify the Controller If the hardware monitor controller exists the application will show an Advanced label at the right bottom corner of the table The user could simply click it to browse the system...

Page 11: ...ght bottom area Figure12 RAID Information If the selected RAID is in rebuilding state it will be highlighted with green color in the tree view Also the rebuilding animation will be played at the botto...

Page 12: ...play the disk pie chart at the right bottom area If the selected disk is one member disk of the rebuilding RAID the rebuilding animation will also be played at the bottom left and right area The rebui...

Page 13: ...ormation 3 1 2 Event Log Viewer JMicron HW RAID Manager will monitor the status of all connected disks and RAID and make records of the occurrence of the events The user could browse all events throug...

Page 14: ...2009 07 16 Page 14 Venus T5 Figure 15 Event Log Viewer Figure 16 Save The Event Logs To A File...

Page 15: ...utomatically select the available disks to build the RAID and calculate the RAID capacity It will show the selected disks charts drawn in the cross pattern on the right part For example if the user se...

Page 16: ...button to restore to the original disk state If the user wants to delete the existing RAID the user could select the DELETE ALL RAID button to delete the RAID and apply it When the user presses the A...

Page 17: ...enus T5 Figure 20 Show Configuration Progress Window After the RAID configuration finishes it will pop up a message dialog to tell that a RAID is newly created or a RAID has been deleted Figure 21 Inf...

Page 18: ...ast the disk charts will be redrawn to reflect the result of the configuration The newly created RAID will be shown with the gradient color If the user deletes the RAID the disk charts will be drawn i...

Page 19: ...Manager provides the function of the email notification when the specified events occur The user might enter the mail server name mail server port sender e mail address and recipients e mail addresse...

Page 20: ...save the email and event settings to a profile by pressing the Save To Profile button or load the settings from the specified profile by pressing Load From Profile button At last the user could press...

Page 21: ...ted disks and provide the available disks for users to select Figure 27 Advanced RAID Configuration Select Disks and Enter Password After applying the RAID configuration the disk charts are updated an...

Page 22: ...ration When the user selects the disks he she could also modify the RAID disk size by simply clicking the specified disk chart and adjust the disk size from the slider at the bottom The disk which is...

Page 23: ...Venus T5 Figure 29 Modify RAID Disk Size The user could delete the RAID by checking the Delete DAID check box The bottom group box will be updated and show the existing RAID The user could select the...

Page 24: ...D supports password the password check box will be automatically enabled for the user to enter the password The RAID member disk which is being deleted is drawn in the cross pattern The Apply button i...

Page 25: ...Provide Password 3 2 3 Firmware Information The user could browse the firmware information and update the firmware in this page To update the firmware the user just simply presses the browse button t...

Page 26: ...Update There is a progress bar to be appeared at the bottom and it will show the percentage of the firmware update After the firmware update progress finishes it will popup a message dialog and ask th...

Page 27: ...2009 07 16 Page 27 Venus T5 Figure 33 Show Progress Bar Figure 34 Show Dialog to Reboot the System...

Page 28: ...Clone OFF ON ON RAID 5 OFF ON OFF Reserved OFF OFF ON Normal Single OFF OFF OFF PS When DIP SW is RAID10 2 HDDs is RAID1 Mode and 4 HDDs is RAID10 Mode 4 1 RAID 0 for High Performance RAID 0 or Stripe...

Page 29: ...Failure in a hard disk Host controller still could read write data Users have to replace the defect hard disk T5 will enter on line auto rebuild mode automatically 4 3 Stripe Mirror RAID 10 for High P...

Page 30: ...s mode is useful especially when users would like to copy data from a hard drive to several hard drives at the same time 4 5 JBOD Concatenating This mode is also named Concatenating In this mode T5 wi...

Page 31: ...5 enter degrade mode Host controller still could read write data thru T5 normally without knowing any defects Users have to replace the defective hard disk T5 then will enter on line auto rebuild mode...