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4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 3 Content 1 WELCOME .................................................................................................................... 6 1.1 PRECAUTION ...............................................................................
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 4 3.3.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY ............................................................................................................................................ 21 3.3.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP ........................
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 6 1 WELCOME RSV-S4-X enhances your data storage by combining advanced RAID 1 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 ...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 7 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 a...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 8 1.4 SPECIFICATIONS z A single eSATA host port to 4 SATA 3.5-inch hard disks, with tool-less screws & door cover. z Power and host status LED, and devices status and activity LED. z Metal chassis (SECC) and plastic panel fram...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 9 1.6 PRODUCT CONTENTS The following parts are content. z RSV-S4-X Port-Multiplier Box z SiI3132R5 PCI-Express 1X HBA z eSATA Cable z AC Cable z Tool-less Screw x 8 z Setup and Installation Driver Repository CD
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 10 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 ...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 11 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-o...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 12 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...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 13 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 i...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 14 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 se...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 15 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 the...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 16 z Insert the Setup and Installation Repository CD in the CD-ROM drive. z When start the Windows O/S, new hardware will be found, click Next> . z Select Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended) , than click Ne...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 17 z Click Browse… to select to driver path, than click OK . z Click Next> to install the Silicon Image Sil3132 SoftRaid 5 Controller driver. z Click Yes to pass the Microsoft digital signature and continue the installation.
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 18 z 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. z Windows will find the Silicon Image’s Pseudo Proc...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 21 3.3.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY Follow the descriptions below, and step by step to complete the installation. z Open the Setup and Installation Repository CD and select the SATARAID5 Array Manager software from the Utility f...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 22 z Select Place shortcut on Desktop , than click Next> to create a shortcut on the desktop. z Click Next> to use the default installation folder.
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 23 z Click Next> to begin the installation. z When SATARAID5 installation has completed, click Close to exit.
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 24 z Select I agree the terms in the license agreement , than click Next> to begin the Java platform installation. z Select Typical , than click Next> . z When Java platform installation has completed, click Finish to exit.
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 25 z Select Start > Programs > Silicon Image > SATARaid5Manager to start the Array Manager software. 3.3.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP Please refer to the chapter 4. 3.3.4 ALLOCATING PARTITION Before creating any partitions, RA...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 26 z Select Disk Management under Storage to view the disk drives. z When Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard appears, click Next> .
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 27 z Select the new disk to write a signature, than click Next> . z Do not click any disk to upgrade to dynamic disk, than click Next> .
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 28 z When the Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard has completed, click Finish . z Right-click on the Unallocated partition and select Create Partition… from the pop-up menu. z Click Next> to create a partition on a basic di...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 29 z Select the partition type you want to create, than click Next> . z Specify the partition size you want to create, than click Next> .
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 32 window. Click on the “My Computer” icon on the Desktop. The new drives will be visible and properly named. The new disks are available for use. 3.4 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS XP (32/64-BIT) 3.4.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTE...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 33 z Select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced) , than click Next> . z Select Search for the best driver in there location , Include this location in the search , and click Browse to select the driver path, than...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 34 z When the installation has completed, click Finish .
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 38 z When SATARAID5 installation has completed, click Close to exit. z Select I accept the terms in the license agreement , than click Next> to begin the Java platform installation. z Select Typical , than click Next> .
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 39 z When Java platform installation has completed, click Finish to exit. z Select Start > All Programs > Silicon Image > SATARaid5Manager to start the Array Manager software. 3.4.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP Please refer to t...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 40 z Right-click on My Computer icon and select Manage from the pop-up menu. z Select Disk Management under Storage to view the disk drives. z When Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard appears, click Next> .
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 41 z Select the new disk to initialize, than click Next> . z Do not click any disk to convert, than click Next> .
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 42 z When the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard has completed, click Finish . z Right-click on the Unallocated partition and select New Partition… from the pop-up menu. z Click Next> to create a partition on a basic disk.
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 46 window. Click on the “My Computer” icon on the Desktop. The new drives will be visible and properly named. The new disks are available for use. 3.4.5 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS ON WINDOWS XP 64-BIT Before creating any partitions, RA...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 49 z When the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard has completed, click Finish . z Windows 64-bit system supports GPT disk which supports disk volume greater than 2TB.
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 50 z Right-click on the Basic disk and select Convert to GPT disk from the pop-up menu. z Right-click on the Unallocated partition and select New Partition… from the pop-up menu.
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 52 z Specify the partition size you want to create, than click Next> . z Assign the drive letter or path you want to create, than click Next> .
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 55 window. Click on the “My Computer” icon on the Desktop. The new drives will be visible and properly named. The new disks are available for use. 3.5 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS SERVER 2003 (32/64-BIT) 3.5.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST B...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 62 z When Java platform installation has completed, click Finish to exit. z Select Start > All Programs > Silicon Image > SATARaid5Manager to start the Array Manager software. 3.5.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP Please refer to t...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 65 z When the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard has completed, click Finish . z Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later system supports GPT disk which supports disk volume greater than 2TB.
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 71 window. Click on the “My Computer” icon on the Desktop. The new drives will be visible and properly named. The new disks are available for use. 3.6 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS VISTA (32/64-BIT) 3.6.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADA...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 72 z Insert the disc that came with your RAID Controller, than click Next . z When the installation has completed, click Close .
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 79 z Windows Vista system supports GPT disk which supports disk volume greater than 2TB. z Right-click on the Unallocated partition and select New Single Volume… from the pop- up menu.
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 81 z Assign the drive letter or path you want to create, than click Next> . z Click Format this partition with the following settings and Perform a quick format , setup the File system , Allocation unit size , Volume label , th...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 82 z When the New Partition Wizard has completed, click Finish . The status of the newly created partition in the Disk Management window should change to Formatting and the percentage complete will be displayed. Depending upon the...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 84 4 SATA RAID5 ARRAY MANAGER 4.1 OVERVIEW The SATARAID5 Array Manager is the Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) which allows you to create and manage RAID volumes. The Manager initially shows two windows as seen below. The RAID Grou...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 85 Throughout the Manager, different colors are used to indicate the status of the components. The meanings of the colors are: COLOR STATUS Green Good. The component and all subcomponents are okay. Yellow Warning. This component o...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 86 4.2.2 CONCATENATED RAID GROUPS Concatenated RAID Groups allow the user to select different sized segments for each member of the volume. For Concatenated volumes only, a dialog box will appear allowing the user to select the in...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 87 4.2.4 MIRRORED RAID GROUPS Mirrored RAID Groups allow the user to select 2 disks for each member of the volume. Enter the desired values and press Create to create the RAID Group (Example below). 4.2.5 MIRRORED STRIPED RAID GRO...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 88 4.2.6 PARITY RAID GROUPS Parity RAID Groups allow the user to select minimum of 3 or more disks for each member of the volume. Enter the desired values and press Create to create the RAID Group (Example below).
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 89 4.2.7 RAID GROUPS OVERVIEW RAID Groups allow Enter values in all fields and click Create to create the RAID Group. FIELD DEFINITION RAID Group Label Enter an identifiable name for the RAID group. This value can be any string (u...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 90 Check Pointing Click the On or Off button to enable or disable the Check Pointing feature. When Check Pointing is enabled, restoring data is very fast after an unexpected power loss, although normal performance may be slightly ...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 91 4.3 ADDITIONAL MENU COMMANDS The Main menu commands are shown below File Device RAID Group Window Legacy Support Help Configuratio n… Create Spare Create RAID Group Task Manager Create Legacy RAID Group Help Topics Exit Delete ...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 92 4.3.1 CONFIGURATION SATARAID5 configuration options include customization of the settings for Log File , Popup , and Advanced Options . This command displays a dialog box to let user set different configurations for SATARAID5 w...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 93 name and location of the Log File. You can also use the Purge button to delete the contents of the Log File.
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 94 Popup Tab SATARAID5 can be configured to notify the user of events using messages in popup windows. Use the slider control to set the event level for popups to occur: - Information Level - The following events will trigger a po...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 96 Advanced Options The Advanced Options tab is used to control advanced features of the RAID driver. By default, all these advanced options are disabled. The Advanced Options tab allows you to enable the following advanced featur...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 97 Advanced RAID Features When this feature is selected and user selects to create RAID group, if the RAID group to be created is fault tolerance group (RAID 1, RAID 5, or RAID 10), user will be able to select Improper Shutdown Po...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 98 4.3.3 CREATE SPARE This command displays a dialog box to let user create spare drive, user needs to select the following parameters: PARAMETER DESCRIPTION Spare Type Choose one of: • Global - If the spare drive is for all RAID ...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 99 4.3.5 DELETE MEMBER This menu option displays a dialog box to select (highlight) RAID group members to delete. Because RAID 0 is not fault tolerant, RAID 0 members are not shown in the list. Note: Deleting members will demote t...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 100 RAID group. When a member of a RAID group fails in a severe manner (such as a loss of power or a complete hard disk failure), it becomes an orphan. This command displays the Delete Orphan Segment window to show all orphan segm...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 101 File Options Exit Sorting … Fields… Exit This command closes the Task Summary window. Sorting This command sorts the rows based on the selected field. Fields This command displays a dialog box to let user choose which fields w...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 102 4.3.10 REBUILD RAID GROUP This command displays a dialog box to let user choose a replacement segment to rebuild a non-fault tolerant RAID group.
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 103 4.3.11 DELETE RAID GROUP This command displays a dialog box to let user choose RAID groups to delete. 4.3.12 BRING RAID GROUP ONLINE This menu option is not available in this product. 4.3.13 RAID GROUP SUMMARY This command dis...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 104 The RAID Group Summary window has its own menu bar. All options available via the menu bar are shown below. File Options Exit Sorting … Fields… Exit This command closes the RAID Group Summary window. Sorting This command displ...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 105 4.3.14 TASK MANAGER This command displays the Task Manager window. The Task Manager window lists all RAID and disk management tasks that have been started and/or done. This window provides user the ability to schedule any RAID...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 106 Print… Resume … Exit Cancel… Delete… Open This option will be available in future revisions. Save This option will be available in future revisions. Print This option will be available in future revisions. Exit This command cl...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 107 Modify This command allows user to modify parameters of the selected task items. The following is an example of changing rebuild priority for a rebuild task. Suspend This command allows user to suspend the selected task items....
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 108 This command displays a dialog box to let user delete the selected task items from the task list in Task Summary window. The following dialog box will pop up to get confirmation from the user. 4.3.15 EVENT LOG This command dis...
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 109 Fields This command displays a dialog box to let user choose which fields will be shown in the event log. 4.3.16 RESOURCES This command displays the Resource Information window. This feature is for debugging purpose only.
4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual 110 The Event Log window has it’s own menu bar. All options available via the menu bar are shown below File Display Exit Suspend Alt+S Resume Alt+R Exit This command closes the Resources window. Suspend This command is to suspend ...
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