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Preface .................................................................................. 2
Notice ............................................................................................................. 2
Trademarks .................................................................................................... 2
Regulatory information ................................................................................... 3
Intended user ............................................................................................ 4
Organization of the manual ....................................................................... 4
Guide to Conventions ..................................................................................... 6
Table of Contents ................................................................. 7
Chapter 1 ............................................................................. 10
Introduction ........................................................................ 10
Overview ...................................................................................................... 10
Key features ................................................................................................. 11
Hot Spare ................................................................................................ 11
Automatic drive rebuilding ....................................................................... 11
Hard drive hot swapping ......................................................................... 11
Warranty .................................................................................................. 11
Specifications ............................................................................................... 12
Available host intefaces and transfer speeds ......................................... 12
Disk Interface Support ............................................................................. 12
RAID Function Support ........................................................................... 12
RA4000e Series Function Support ......................................................... 12
Mechanical, Environmental and Safety Specifications ........................... 13
Chapter 2 ............................................................................. 14
Before you begin ................................................................ 14
Making sure you have everything ................................................................ 14
What's in the box ..................................................................................... 14
What else you need ................................................................................ 15
Pre-installation planning ............................................................................... 16
Introduction to RAID levels ...................................................................... 16
RAID 0 ..................................................................................................... 17
RAID 0+1 ................................................................................................. 18
RAID 5 and RAID 5+hot spare ................................................................ 19
Pre-installation notices ................................................................................. 21
