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About the direct-connect storage system

A K2 Summit system that is directly connected to an external K2 RAID storage device for media storage is a self-contained, stand-alone unit.

The storage system on direct-connect storage K2 Summit system includes the following:

System Drive — Compact Flash (first generation Summit) or mSATA (Summit 3G) boot media serves as the system drive. The Windows operating system, applications, and other standard computer software components reside on the system drive.

Fibre Channel card — The direct-connect K2 Summit system has a direct Fibre Channel connection to external K2 RAID. The K2 Summit system must have the optional Fibre Channel card installed to support this connection.

There are no internal RAID drives or a disk controller board in a direct-connect storage K2 Summit system.

RAID 5 — Drives configured as RAID 5 provide redundancy. There are six disks in one RAID 5 LUN. A disk in a LUN can fail and disk access can continue. When a disk fails, error messages in the AppCenter StatusPane inform you of the problem. You can then replace the failed disk. The data is rebuilt on the replacement disk and redundancy is restored.


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