Sans Digital EliteSTOR ES208X12 User manual

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Overview: Sans Digital EliteSTOR 12G SAS expander series is a storage rackmount enclosure with 12G SAS
expander build-in to the unit. Using with 12G SAS host bus adapter (HBA) or 12G SAS RAID controller, Sans
Digital EliteSTOR 12G SAS expander series can easily upgrade your storage infrastructure’s performance and
instantly increase your storage sizes.
In this quick installation guide, it will cover the hard drive installation, product connection diagram, and basic
enclosure information and status LED information
Hard Drive Installation
1. Push the Blue button on the right-side of the hard drive tray to the left releasing the hard drive tray
handle.
2. Pull on the tray handle to remove the tray from the enclosure.
3. Place a hard drive into the tray and line it up with the holes on the hard drive tray.
4. Fasten the hard drive to the tray using the provide screws and a Philips screw driver.
5. Place the tray back into the enclosure and lock the tray by pushing in the tray handle until it clicks
into place.
Product Diagram
Unit Backplane
EliteSTOR ES208X12 Quick Installation Guide

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Hard Drive Locations
Installation Diagram
1. Install the PCIe RAID card or HBA into an available PCIe slot on the host computer.
2. Connect the mini-SAS HD cable into port of the PCIe RAID card’s SAS port.
3. Attached the other end of the mini-SAS HD cable into the Sans Digital SAS enclosure mini-SAS HD
port.
4. Power on the SAS enclosure then power on the host computer.
5. Wait for the host computer to boot and follow the RAID controller instructions to install the drivers
and RAID management software.
6. The connected hard drives will display under RAID controller’s management interface, or disk
management/utilities for HBA cards.

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Drive LED information (Hard Drive Tray)
Redundant Power Supply (Standard for ES212X12, ES316X12, ES424X12, optional for ES208X12)
The redundant power supply feature consists of hot-swappable power supply modules. If one of the power
modules fails, the remaining working power supply modules will continue to provide power to the unit so
users do not experience downtime. A replacement power supply could be installed while the unit is running.
Once the replacement power has been installed, the unit will regain its redundant power feature.
Note: Power must be supplied to all power supply modules in order for redundant feature to operate
correctly.
Fan/Power Fail LED information (Front Panel)
When the power supply modules or internal cooling fan malfunctions, the front fail LED will blink and the
alarm will go off. Please see table below:
Description
Alarm Buzzer
Fail LED
Power Supply Failure
Always On
Blinking Red
Cooling Fan Failure
Beep with one second interval
Blinking Red
Note: Pressing down the ‘Alarm Reset’ button temporarily silences the alarm. Alarm will start buzzing again
once the unit has been restarted.