Addonics Technologies R14HPCCES User Manual

T E C H N O L O G I E S

User Guide

1U RAID Rack with HPM,

AES 256-bit encryption

(R14HPCCES)

www.addonics.com

v6.1.11

Technical Support

If you need any assistance to get your unit functioning properly, please have your
product information ready and contact Addonics Technical Support at:

Hours: 8:30 am - 6:00 pm PST
Phone: [phone]
Email: http://www.addonics.com/support/query/

Power Button

Unpacking and Overview

Drive
Eject

Levers

Drive

Activity

LED

Power
Switch

Cipher Reset

Button

AC Input

Switch

AC Input

Power Cord

(US Version Shown)

WARNING: Please remember to
set the power supply to your local
outlet voltage prior to plugging in
the power cord. Failure to do so
may damage the power supply.

Cipher LED

Cipher

Connector

eS ATA

Connector

100 cm eSATA cable (2)

Cipher Keys

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Cipher Chain Module

The Cipher hardware in the R14CCES is activated by either powering up the
unit or pressing the Cipher Reset button with the Cipher Key inserted. Without

activating the Cipher hardware, no drives in the Raid Rack will be visible to the
computer. Once the Cipher hardware is activated, the amber Cipher LED will
glow and the drives will be available, and the Cipher key may be removed. If
the Raid Rack is powered down or the Cipher Reset button is pressed, the key
will need to be reinserted and the Raid Rack powered up or the reset button
pressed while the key is inserted for the unit to resume normal operation. All
I/O operations are encrypted so drives must be partitioned and formatted as if
they were blank once installed in the Raid Rack. Should a drive with encrypted
data be removed from the Raid Rack and installed elsewhere, it will appear to
be completely blank with no partition table or file system.

Port Multiplier Compatibility

The R14HPCCES unit only supports configuring the drives in RAID configura­tion. For JBOD installations, the R14CCES unit is recommended instead.
When configured as RAID, the controller is not required to support port
multipliers.

Using identical drives for all settings other than JBOD or LARGE is strongly
recommended. Creating a LARGE array using drives that have different
properties will use all space on all members, and performance will match that
of the member in use during any particular I/O operation. Creating a RAID
using drives that are not all the same size will result in all members using only
as much space as the smallest member. Creating a RAID using drives that
have different performance will degrade the overall performance of the array.

Hot Swapping drives

The R14HPCCES unit supports hot swapping (inserting or removing drives
while the drives are running and connected to a computer). The eSATA
controller on the computer must also support hot swapping - be sure to
confirm this before attempting to insert or remove drives while the system is
running. Also be sure to practice the appropriate safe removal procedure
before proceeding. Failure to practice safe removal procedures will result in
loss or corruption of data.

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