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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System
RSV-S4-X
User Manual
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 2
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual Content 1 WELCOME....................................................................................................................6 1.1 PRECAUTION ................................................................................................................................................6 1.2 FEATURES ............................................................................
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 3.3.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY ............................................................................................................................................ 21 3.3.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP......................................................................................................................................................... 25 3.3.4 ALLOCATIN
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 4.3.7 MAKE PASS-THRU ................................................................................................................................................................... 100 4.3.8 DEVICE SUMMARY................................................................................................................................................................... 100 4.3.9 CRE
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 1 WELCOME 1 RSV-S4-X enhances your data storage by combining advanced RAID features typically seen on high-end data systems with low cost/high capacity Serial ATA drives. By using industry standard SATA drives and Silicon Image Host Bus Adapters, you can achieve extraordinarily low costs while remaining assured that your data is protected against hardware failure. 1.1 PREC
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 1.2 FEATURES 1.2.1 DATA SECURITY The RSV-S4-X software driver includes support for monitoring to predict suspect drives. RSV-S4-X provides our highest commitment to data security through the use of RAID architecture to back up and protect data. RAID levels 1, 10, and 5 provide data security. RSV- S4-X supports sophisticated sparing support so that hardware failure risk can be mini
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 1.4 SPECIFICATIONS A single eSATA host port to 4 SATA 3.5-inch hard disks, with tool-less screws & door cover. Power and host status LED, and devices status and activity LED. Metal chassis (SECC) and plastic panel frame (ABS) design. 135 (W) x 180 (H) x 255 (D) mm, NW: 2.7 Kgs, GW: 3.1Kgs. Design based on the Silicon Image SiI3726 Port-Multiplier with SiI3132R5 PCI-E
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 1.6 PRODUCT CONTENTS The following parts are content. RSV-S4-X Port-Multiplier Box SiI3132R5 PCI-Express 1X HBA eSATA Cable AC Cable Tool-less Screw x 8 Setup and Installation Driver Repository CD 9
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 2 INTRODUCTION TO RAID 2.1 RAID VOLUMES RAID technology allows one or more disks to be combined into a logical volume which provides greater performance and/or protection than standard disk drives. These volumes, also known as RAID Groups, appear like regular disk drives to the operating system and can be partitioned, formatted and used just like any other normal disk. The
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual high security volume, the greem section is the middle security volume and the light blue shows the unprotected area. Figure 1: Dividing Disks into Members 2.3 RAID LEVELS 2.3.1 DISK STRIPING (RAID 0) Striping is a performance-oriented, non-redundant data mapping technique. While Striping is discussed as a RAID Group type, it is does not provide any fault tolerance. With moder
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 2.3.2 DISK MIRRORING (RAID 1) Disk mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneously written to two disks. This redundancy provides instantaneous protection from a single disk failure. If a read failure occurs on one drive, the system reads the data from the other drive. RAID 1 sets are comprised of two drives, and a third drive can
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 2.3.4 PARITY RAID (RAID 5) Parity or RAID 5 adds fault tolerance to Disk Striping by including parity information with the data. Parity RAID dedicates the equivalent of one disk for storing parity stripes. The data and parity information is arranged on the disk array so that parity is written to different disks. There are at least 3 members to a Parity RAID set. The following examp
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 2.3.6 SINGLE DRIVE / SEGMENT The single drive is a virtual disk that can either be an entire disk drive or a segment of a single disk drive. Single drive is the “Contiguous” configuration option when creating RAID Groups (or sets) in the SATARAID5 software. 2.4 RAID VOLUME STATUS A RAID volume can be in any one of the following statuses. STATUS MEANING Good All disks are
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 3 INSTALLATION 3.1 COMPONENTS There are three separate steps that must be install or setup for RSV-S4-X to function. These components are the HARDWARE, SATA RAID5 HBA DRIVER, and SATARAID5 Utility. The steps on how to setup these packages is described in the following sections. 3.2 INSTALLING HARDWARE Follow the descriptions below, and step by step to complete the installation.
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual Insert the Setup and Installation Repository CD in the CD-ROM drive. When start the Windows O/S, new hardware will be found, click Next>. Select Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended), than click Next>. Select Specify a location, than click Next>. 16
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual Click Browse… to select to driver path, than click OK. Click Next> to install the Silicon Image Sil3132 SoftRaid 5 Controller driver. Click Yes to pass the Microsoft digital signature and continue the installation. 17
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual When the Silicon Image Sil3132 SoftRaid 5 Controller installation has completed, click Finish, and begin to the Silicon Image’s Pseudo Processor Device driver installation. Windows will find the Silicon Image’s Pseudo Processor Device hardware, click Next>. 18
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual Select Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended), than click Next>. Select Specify a location, than click Next>. 19
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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual Click Browse… to select to driver path, than click OK. Click Next> to install the Silicon Image’s Pseudo Processor Device driver. When the Silicon Image’s Pseudo Processor Device installation has completed, click Finish. 20
