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If your ASUS DS300f G2 subsystem shipped with the drives installed at the factory, you can skip this section
and go to
"Making Serial Cable Connections" on page 29
The ASUS DS300f G2 subsystems and JBOD expansion units support:
• SAS and SATA physical drives
• 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch physical drives
• Hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD)
For a list of supported physical drives, download the latest compatibility list from ASUS Storage support:
http://www.ASUS Storage.com/support/.
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The table below shows the number of drives required for each RAID level.
Level Number of Drives
RAID 0 1 or more
RAID 1 2 only
RAID 1E 2 or more
RAID 3 3 to 32
RAID 5 3 to 32
* Must be an even number of drives.
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RAID 6
RAID 10
RAID 30
RAID 50
RAID 60
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You can install any suitable disk drive into any slot in the enclosure. The diagram below shows how ASUS
DS300f G2's drive slots are numbered. Slot numbering is reflected in the ASUS Storage Management and CLU
user interfaces.
Figure 2 - 5: Drive slot numbering
4 to 32
Install all of the drive carriers into the ASUS DS300f G2 enclosure to ensure proper airflow, even if you do not
4 or more*
populate all the carriers with physical drives.
6 or more
6 or more
8 or more
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