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It
creates two virtual volumes; one SAFE volume and one BIG volume. It
uses a SAFE volume that is mirrored across two hard drives to
protect your critical data in the event a hard drive failure. If one
drive fails the SAFE volume is retrievable although the BIG volume
is not. When you replace the failed drive, the SAFE volume is
automatically rebuilt on to the replacement drive.
When
using a SATA host connection, you must have a PM (Port Multiplier)
aware host adapter when using SAFE33 on the top level node of a
cascaded configuration so that ALL volumes can be detected by the
host. If your SATA host adaptor is not PM aware, then ONLY the SAFE
volume will be detected and the BIG volume will not be accessible.
No such limitation exists when using a USB host connection.
The
size of the SAFE volume will be one-third of the size of one hard
drive (if they are equal) or one-third of the size of the smaller
(if they are not equal.) The size of the BIG volume will be the
combination of all remaining capacities. |