I cant find BASIC info on the RN316. Can some one please tell me:
a. Which bay is #1. The top one or the bottom one. b. How do I visually know when a drive has failed? Does the Blue light change colour? c. How do I swap a drive out. Can it be done live (ie: Is it FULL HOT SWAP) ? d. If I have no spare bays, can I swap any 1 disk for a new, larger one? If not, can it be determined which drive I can swap out? e. How do you choose which RAID I want. I believe I want X-Raid, but there's X-Raid2, plus the standard Raid levels 0 -> 10 right? Where do I set it?
This is all basic stuff. The 316 comes with a few trivial brochures. Nothing with detail, NO CD, no full manual.... we're left in the dark! Even the manuals I find on line dont answer these qus
The hardware and software manuals answer questions b-e.
-Bays are numbered top to bottom. That should be in the hardware manual, but somehow never makes it.
-Disk leds turn red when the disk fails, was removed, or is synchronizing. Its off if no disk is present.
-You can do a full hot swap, and I always recommend hot-insertion.
-You can upgrade disks for larger ones, the impact on storage depends the starting and ending disk configuration and the raid mode.
-The top-level choice for RAID is to choose XRAID2 or FLEXRAID. XRAID2 was introduced a long time ago now, and it generally just called XRAID unless the context is a v1 sparc NAS. Chapter 2in the software manual covers volume configuration in detail, I do recommend that you read it before you set up the NAS.
Note that hot swapping is for replacing disks you no longer wish to use e.g. because the disk is failing, or you wish to use a higher capacity disk.
We don't provide a CD as it's not needed. All the manuals and the KB articles are online and any version included on a CD would quickly become outdated.
