Drive Configurations : Intel's RAID 5 NAS Makes the Grade

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Drive Configurations

By Felix Laufer, published on May 18, 2006
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: intel, ss4000e, raid5, nas

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Basic Features
3. Basic Features, Continued
4. Drive Configurations
5. Drive Configurations, Continued
6. Installation and Configuration
7. Installation and Configuration, Continued

4. Drive Configurations

The SS4000-E supports up to four hot-swappable SATA drives. Since the largest drives available are now up to 750 GB, the total maximum capacity of the SS4000-E is a whopping 3 TB. We loaded our test device up with four Western Digital Caviar WD2500YD, 250 GB, RAID Edition drives, for a full terabyte of networked storage.

View of backplane with SATA connectors

The SS4000-E can be configured to use its four drives in RAID 0, 1, 1+0 and 5 configurations. There is also an "Alternative RAID 5 + Hot Spare" option available where the "spare" drive is ready to take over instantly for any of the other three drives in the array, should one of them fail.