Overland Tandberg RDX QuikStor User manual

RDX® SATA III
Part Number: 1021806 Rev. A, November 2016
®
February 2022
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RDX QuikStor
Internal SATA III Device
Reference Guide
February 2022
10401076-002

RDX QuikStor Internal SATA III Device Reference Guide
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Preface
Topics in Preface
•About This Manual
•Product Warranty Caution
•Conventions Used in This Manual
•Firmware Updates
•Technical Support
About This Manual
This is the Reference Manual for the RDX QuikStor SATA III removable disk drive product. The
main purpose of this document is to provide customers with technical and operational details
about the product design.
Product Warranty Caution
The RDX QuikStor is warranted to be free from defects in materials, parts, and workmanship and
will conform to the current product specification upon delivery.
For the specific details of your warranty, refer to your sales contract or see the Overland-Tandberg
website:
www.overlandtandberg.com
The warranty for the appliance shall not apply to failures caused by:
•Physical abuse or use not consistent with the operating instructions or product
specifications.
•Repair or modification by anyone other than Overland-Tandberg’s personnel or agent in a
manner differing from the maintenance instructions provided by Overland-Tandberg.
•Removal of the Overland-Tandberg identification labels.
•Physical abuse due to improper packaging of returned unit.
If problems with the RDX QuikStor occur, contact your maintenance organization; do not void the
product warranty by allowing untrained or unauthorized personnel to attempt repairs.

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Conventions Used in This Manual
This document exercises several alerts and typographical conventions.
Alerts
There are four different types of alerts used in this guide. All warnings are translated into
German and French.
Typographical Conventions
Information contained in this guide has been reviewed for accuracy, but not for product warranty
because of the various environments, operating systems, or settings involved. Information and
specifications may change without notice.
Alert Description & Usage
NOTE: A Note indicates neutral or positive information that emphasizes or
supplements important points of the main text. A note supplies
information that may apply only in special cases, for example, memory
limitations or details that apply to specific program versions.
IMPORTANT An Important note is a type of note that provides information essential to
the completion of a task or that can impact the product and its function.
CAUTION A Caution contains information that the user needs to know to avoid
damaging or permanently deleting data or causing physical damage to
the hardware or system.
WARNING
WARNUNG
ADVERTISSEMENT
A Warning contains information concerning personal safety. Failure to
follow directions in the warning could result in bodily harm or death.
Eine Warnung enthält Informationen zur persönlichen Sicherheit. Das
Nichtbeachten der Anweisungen in der Warnung kann zu Verletzungen
oder zum Tod führen.
Un Canadien avertissement comme celui-ci contient des informations
relatives à la sécurité personnelle. Ignorer les instructions dans
l’avertissement peut entraîner des lésions corporelles ou la mort.
Convention Description & Usage
Button_name
Words in this special boldface font indicate command buttons found in
the Remote Management Interface (RMI) or Operator Control Panel
(OCP).
Ctrl-Alt-R Denotes the keys that you press simultaneously. In this example, hold
down the Ctrl and Alt keys and press the Rkey.
Menu Flow
Indicator (
> )
Words with a greater than sign between them indicate the flow of actions
to accomplish a task. For example, Setup > Passwords > User indicates
that you should press the Setup button, then the Password button, and
finally the User button to accomplish a task.
Courier Italic Used to exemplify a variable for which you must substitute a value.
Courier Bold Represents commands or text in a command-line interface (CLI).

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Product Documentation
RDX QuikStor product documentation and additional literature are available online at the
Overland-Tandberg Knowledge Base:
https://www.overlandtandberg.com/knowledgebase/
Refer to the Removable Disk Solutions (RDX) section to access the information you need.
Firmware Updates
The latest release of the RDX QuikStor XL-Series firmware and its release notes can be obtained
from the RDX QuikStor firmware web page for SATA III:
https://ftp1.overlandtandberg.com/rdx/RDX QuikStor/Firmware/SATA/SATA III/
Follow the appropriate instructions to download the
latest software file.
Technical Support
You can get additional technical support information on the Contact Us web page at:
https://www.overlandtandberg.com/contact-us/
For a complete list of support types, levels, and times, visit our website at:
https://www.overlandtandberg.com/service-support/contact-service-support/

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Contents
Preface 3
About This Manual ........................................................................................................................................................3
Product Warranty Caution ..........................................................................................................................................3
Conventions Used in This Manual ................................................................................................................................4
Firmware Updates .........................................................................................................................................................5
Technical Support .........................................................................................................................................................5
Chapter 1: Product Overview 8
RDX Storage System .....................................................................................................................................................8
RDX QuikStor USB 3+ External Dock .......................................................................................................................8
RDX QuikStor SATA III Internal Drive .......................................................................................................................9
RDX Media ...............................................................................................................................................................9
Chapter 2: Drive Specifications 10
Drive Block Diagram ...................................................................................................................................................10
Mechanical Dimensions and Weight .......................................................................................................................11
Power Requirements ..................................................................................................................................................11
Drive SATA III Power Source .................................................................................................................................11
Current Requirements ...........................................................................................................................................11
Environmental Specifications ....................................................................................................................................11
Temperature and Relative Humidity ...................................................................................................................11
Vibration .................................................................................................................................................................12
Impact and Shock ................................................................................................................................................12
Product Regulatory Compliance ..............................................................................................................................12
Acoustic/Audible Noise Emissions .......................................................................................................................12
EMC Emission .........................................................................................................................................................12
Safety Compliance ...............................................................................................................................................13
Product Reliability .......................................................................................................................................................14
Electronics and Media MTBF ................................................................................................................................14
Mechanics MTTF ....................................................................................................................................................14
Useful Life Cycle ....................................................................................................................................................14
Functional Specifications ...........................................................................................................................................15
Eject Button and Emergency Eject Hole ............................................................................................................15
Normal ejects ...................................................................................................................................................15
Unconditional Eject .........................................................................................................................................15
Emergency Eject .............................................................................................................................................15
Service Mode ...................................................................................................................................................16
Eject Button/Power LED ........................................................................................................................................17
Activity LED ............................................................................................................................................................17
Chapter 3: Installation Information 18
General Mounting Information .................................................................................................................................18

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Rear Connectors .........................................................................................................................................................19
Power Dissipation ........................................................................................................................................................19
Chapter 4: Hardware & Software Interfaces 20
Hardware Interface ....................................................................................................................................................20
Power Interface .....................................................................................................................................................20
Host Interface – SATA III ........................................................................................................................................21
Software Interface ......................................................................................................................................................21
Appendix A: Reference Documentation 22
Index 23

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Product Overview
RDX Storage System
RDX is a removable disk-based technology providing lightning fast backup and restore. The RDX
product family is designed to deliver cost efficiency to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB)
with growing data storage needs. It's easy to store data offsite—simply remove the pocket-sized
disk media and carry to another location.
Supporting a wide range of applications, the RDX system is available with different host
interfaces and a variety of media capacities that are fully interchangeable and compatible with all
our RDX systems.
A complete RDX system is composed of the drive bay (Drive) that holds the SATA III drive and the
recording media in a physical carrier (media). The media is recognized by the Drive and its media
is recognized as a volume on a host system.
RDX QuikStor SATA III Internal Drive
The server-class drive combines the benefits of tape—reliability, portability, archive life, and low
cost—with the performance, speed, and random access of hard disk technology.
Figure 1: RDX QuikStor SATA III Internal Drive
The SATA III interface makes system integration easy, provides speed of up to 330 MB/s and
combines the benefits of both tape and disk, and offers hardware encryption and powerful
deduplication backups.

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RDX Media
The RDX QuikStor media delivers a robust design that is physically, environmentally, and
electrically shock-resistant for digital data protection and secure handling. The media drive
defines the capacity of the product.
Figure 2: RDX Media
The Drive is both backwards and forwards compatible with all RDX media – users can use higher
or lower capacity media. Each RDX media contains features intended to protect the data written
to the media including ESD protection, shock and vibration alleviation, and a physical Write
Protect Switch detectable by the RDX Drive which may be set by the user to disallow modification
of user data on the media.

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Drive Specifications
This section contains a set of specifications for the RDX QuikStor SATA III Drive.
Drive Block Diagram
All drive operations are controlled by the main Micro Controller. This includes the motor
operating the eject function in addition to communication with the user, the host, and the media.
Figure 1: RDX SATA III Internal Drive Block Diagram