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First generation K2 Summit internal storage system

The storage system on an internal storage first generation K2 Summit system includes the following:

Compact Flash — The Compact Flash boot media serves as the system drive. The Windows operating system, applications, and other standard computer software components reside on the system drive.

RAID drives — There are slots for eight 3.5 inch RAID drives, located behind the front bezel assembly in the front of the unit. These drives are for media storage. Eight media drives are available. RAID 0 is available as an option from the factory. Media data is written or “striped” across media drives in a continuous fashion, which makes them a “stripe group”. This media stripe group appears as the V: drive to the Windows operating system.

Disk controller board — The disk controller board provides the RAID functionality for the internal disks. It is mounted horizontally in the front center of the unit. K2 Summit systems with direct-connect storage or shared SAN storage do not contain a disk controller board, as RAID disks are in the external RAID storage devices.

RAID 1 — Drives configured as RAID 1 provide redundancy. The two disks in a RAID 1 LUN are redundant partners. Any single 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.

RAID 0 — Media drives configured as RAID 0 offer no redundancy. If any single RAID 0 media drive fails, all data is lost on all media drives.


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