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8.1 Storage Tools
You can use the Storage Tools to manage the partition and format of the attached
storage devices. It also allows you to build RAID 0, JBOD or RAID1 if you have two
internal SATA hard disk drives installed.
RAID 0 - helps to merge two hard disk drives together in striped way. It
simulates a big hard disk drive and the available space of the virtual big hard disk
drive is the sum of the two physical internal SATA hard disk drives. RAID 0 only
works when both internal SATA hard disk drives are healthy. If any one of the two
internal SATA hard disk drives fails in RAID 0 mode, you will lose whole data and it
is unrecoverable.
RAID 1 - maintains two copies of your data in the two internal SATA hard disk drives.
Each disk drive keeps one copy. So RAID 1 still works correctly if just only one of
the two internal SATA hard disk drives fails. Because RAID 1 keeps two copies of
whole data, the disk space utilization is only 1/2. RAID 1 simulates a stable hard
disk drive and the available space of the virtual stable hard disk drive is the size of
the smaller physical internal SATA hard disk drive if the sizes of the two internal
SATA hard disk drives are different (The additional space of the larger hard disk
drive is useless).
JBOD - helps to you merge two hard disk drives together in linear way. It
simulates a big hard disk drive and the available space of the virtual big hard disk drive
is the sum of the two physical internal SATA hard disk drives. JBOD only works when
both internal SATA hard disk drives are healthy. If any one of the two internal SATA
hard disk drives fails in JBOD mode, you will lose whole data and it is unrecoverable.
Note: When you use the Storage Tools to partition or format the hard disk drive (no
matter internal SATA hard disk drive or external USB hard disk drive), the system will
stop all service rst. So please make sure that you have nished all le transfer before
using Storage Tools.
Note: Storage Tools only can be used to manage internal SATA hard disk drives and
USB mass storage devices attached to USB2 port. You cannot use Storage Tools to
partition/format USB mass storage devices attached to USB1 port. If you want to
partition/format a USB mass storage device, please attached it to USB2 port or move
the USB mass storage device to a PC and use the PC to do partition/format.
Note: For the internal SATA hard disk drives, the Koobrick Boxi only allows you to do
“Auto Partition & Format”. Only the external USB hard disk drive attached to USB2
port can be manually partitioned and formatted.
Note: If you want to build RAID for the Koobrick Boxi, it is strongly suggested that the
two internal SATA hard disk drives are the same brand and model.
Boxi User Manual
Version 1.0
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