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G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 1 G-SPEED™ Product Guide G-Technology Inc. Tel: (310) 449-4599 Fax: (310) 449-4670 support@g-technology.com P/N GSPEED120506 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. SAFETY PRECAUTIONS 3. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 4. WHA T’S IN THE BOX 5.
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G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 4 1. INTRODUCTION Thank you for purchas ing G-SPEED from G- T echnology , Inc. (G- T ech)! Designed from the ground up for creative professionals, G-SPEED supp orts uncompressed HD video editing workflows w ith multiple levels of RAID protection.
G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 5 5. G-SPEED OVERVIEW 6. LED Indicators G-SPEED is equipped with three LED’ s located on the front panel. The top blue LED indica tes the system is powered, the bottom b.
G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 6 7.2 Installing the Dis k Drive Modules 1. R emove the G-SPEED B ezel by pulling forward. 2. Install the six disk drive modu les into the G-SPEED enclosure and secure them in place by pushing on the lever .
G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 7 3. Insert the optical cable into the SFP , it will seat with an audible click. 4. R emove the protective plug fr om PORT 0 of the SFP installed in the A T T O HBA an d insert the free end of the optical cable. It will seat w ith an audible click.
G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 8 2. Enter the system through the L CD panel by pressing the “ENTER” button once. Y ou will b e prompted for your password. Use the UP / DOWN buttons to c hange the characters and ENTER butto n to move the cursor to the right.
G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 9 8. MANUAL CONFIGURATION This section will des cribe how to man ually configure G-SPEED using the web GUI. The G-SPEED e mploys a very sophisticated controller with ma n y a dv an ce d o pt io ns .
G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 10 8.2 (SCSI) Configuring G-SPEE D SCSI ID T o set the SCSI ID of G-SPE E D select “Modify V olu me Set ” on the left NA V bar under “V olume Set Functi ons. ” On the next page select the volu me you wish to set the SCSI ID.
G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 1 1 3. G-SPEED with capacities o ver 2TB must be configured to work properly with your operating system. a. Mac OS X Users: Set the item “Greater T wo T er abyte V olume Support” to “64bit LBA ” , this configures G-SPEED to report full capacity in MAC OSX b.
G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 12 4. Accept all other default se tti ngs on the Qui ck Create page. T o complete the proce ss and create the RAID/V olume Set, check the “Confirm The Operati on” check bo x and hit the “Submit ” butt on. This will beg in the initia lization process.
G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 13 C. An email is sent to specified emai l address if email notification is enabl ed. (T o enable email notification see Section 10.2) 2. The specific failure is repo rted on th e front panel LCD (accessed by removing the G- SPEED fro nt bezel) and the web GUI.
G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 14 9.1 Silencing the Audible Alarm During a F ailure event, the audible alarm is silenced through the web GUI or by the LCD pa nel. (to disable the audible alarm see section 10.1) 1. Silencing Through W eb GUI Select “View Events/Mute Beeper” under the “System Control” section on the left n avigation bar .
G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 15 10.2 Alert By Mail Config In the event of a system failure G-SPEED can alert up to fo ur individuals of the problem via an email message. Enter the applicable informat ion in to the window shown below, click the “Confirm The Operation” bo x and then click on the “Submit” button.
G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 16 11. TECHNICAL SUPPORT If you encount er any difficulties wh ile installing G-SPEED, please contact G- T ech T echnical Support via one of the following w ays: T elephone: (310) 449-4599 F ax: (310) 449-4670 E-mail: support@g-technology .
G-SPEED Product Guide Pa g e 17 APPENDIX A RAID Level Description Advantage Disadvantage Ideal For… 0 Disk striping Offers the highest performance and useable storage capacity No fault tolerance - f.
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