Thunderbolt 600 User manual

ThunderBox 600
(Thunderbolt 2 & USB 3.0 to 6Gb/s SAS RAID)
User’s Manual
Version: 1.2
Issue Date: December, 2014
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FCC Statement
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits
for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules.
These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against in-
terference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses,
and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used
in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to
radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interfer-
ence will not occur in a particular installation.
Manufacturer’s Declaration for CE Certication
We conrm ThunderBox 600 has been tested and found compliant with
the requirements in the council directive relating to the EMC Directive
2004/108/EC. Regarding to the electromagnetic compatibility, the fol-
lowing standards were applied:
EN 55022: 2006, Class B
EN 61000-3-2: 2006
EN 61000-3-3: 1995+A1: 2001+A2: 2005
EN 55024:1998+A1:2001=A2:2003
IEC61000-4-2: 2001
IEC61000-4-3: 2006
IEC61000-4-4: 2004
IEC61000-4-5: 2005
IEC61000-4-6: 2006
IEC61000-4-8: 2001
IEC61000-4-11: 2004

Contents
1. Introduction ................................................................ 8
1.1 Overview .........................................................................8
1.2 Features ........................................................................ 10
2. Installation................................................................ 12
2.1 Before You First Installing................................................. 12
2.2 Summary of RAID Storage Setup Steps.............................. 13
• For Mac OS X................................................................. 13
• For Windows.................................................................. 13
2.3 RAID Storage View.......................................................... 15
2.4 Locations of the Storage Component.................................. 16
2.4.1 Drive Tray LED Indicators ............................................ 16
2.4.2 LCD Panel LED Indicators ............................................ 17
2.4.3 Thunderbolt Port LED Indicators ................................... 17
2.5 Setting Up RAID Storage.................................................. 18
2.5.1 Physically Install RAID Storage and Drives ..................... 18
2.5.2 Mac Users ................................................................. 23
2.5.2.1 Install the MRAID Software ..................................... 23
2.5.2.2 Congure RAID Volumes......................................... 27
2.5.2.3 Format RAID Volumes ............................................ 30
2.5.2.4 Make A Bootable RAID Volume ................................ 32
2.5.2.5 Unmounting RAID Volumes ..................................... 32
2.5.3 Windows Users .......................................................... 33
2.5.3.1 Install the MRAID Software ..................................... 33
2.5.3.2 Congure RAID Volumes......................................... 37
2.5.3.3 Format RAID Volumes ............................................ 40
2.5.3.4 Unmounting RAID Volumes ..................................... 40
3. ArcHTTP Conguration .............................................. 42
• General Conguration ..................................................... 42
• Mail (Alert by Mail) Conguration ..................................... 43
• SNMP Traps Conguration ............................................... 44
• Rescan Device Conguration............................................ 46
• Collect Support Data ...................................................... 46
4. Web Browser-based Conguration ........................... 47
4.1 Start-up McRAID Storage Manager .................................... 48
• McRAID Storage Manager from Local Administration (In-Band)
...................................................................................... 48
• McRAID Storage Manager Through LAN Port (Out-of-Band) .. 49

4.2 McRAID Main Window ...................................................... 49
4.3 Main Menu .................................................................... 50
4.4 Quick Function................................................................ 50
4.5 Raid Set Functions .......................................................... 51
4.5.1 Create Raid Set ......................................................... 51
4.5.2 Delete Raid Set .......................................................... 52
4.5.3 Expand Raid Set......................................................... 53
4.5.4 Ofine Raid Set.......................................................... 54
4.5.5 Rename Raid Set........................................................ 54
4.5.6 Activate Incomplete Raid Set ....................................... 55
4.5.7 Create Hot Spare ....................................................... 55
4.5.8 Delete Hot Spare........................................................ 56
4.5.9 Rescue Raid Set ......................................................... 56
4.6 Volume Set Functions ...................................................... 57
4.6.1 Create Volume Set (0/1/10/3/5/6) ............................... 58
• Volume Name ................................................................ 58
• Volume Raid Level ......................................................... 58
• Capacity ....................................................................... 58
• Greater Two TB Volume Support....................................... 58
• Initialization Mode .......................................................... 59
• Stripe Size .................................................................... 59
• Cache Mode .................................................................. 60
• Volume Write Protection.................................................. 60
• Volume IO Mode: ........................................................... 60
• Tagged Command Queuing.............................................. 60
• SCSI Channel/SCSI ID/SCSI Lun...................................... 61
4.6.2 Create Raid30/50/60 (Volume Set 30/50/60) ................. 61
4.6.3 Delete Volume Set...................................................... 62
4.6.4 Modify Volume Set...................................................... 62
4.6.4.1 Volume Growth ..................................................... 63
4.6.4.2 Volume Set Migration ............................................. 63
4.6.4.3 Volume Write Protection ......................................... 64
4.6.5 Check Volume Set ...................................................... 64
4.6.6 Schedule Volume Check .............................................. 65
4.7 Physical Drive ................................................................ 66
4.7.1 Create Pass-Through Disk............................................ 66
4.7.2 Modify Pass-Through Disk............................................ 67
4.7.3 Delete Pass-Through Disk ............................................ 67
4.7.4 Clone Disk................................................................. 68
4.7.4.1 Clone And Replace ................................................. 68
4.7.4.2 Clone Only ........................................................... 68
4.7.5 Abort Cloning............................................................. 69

4.7.6 Set Disk To Be Failed .................................................. 69
4.7.7 Activate Failed Disk .................................................... 70
4.7.8 Identify Enclosure ...................................................... 70
4.7.9 Identify Drive ............................................................ 70
4.8 System Controls ............................................................. 71
4.8.1 System Cong ........................................................... 71
• System Beeper Setting ................................................... 71
• Background Task Priority ................................................. 71
• JBOD/RAID Conguration ................................................ 71
• SATA NCQ Support ......................................................... 72
• HDD Read Ahead Cache .................................................. 72
• Volume Data Read Ahead ............................................... 72
• HDD Queue Depth ......................................................... 72
• Empty HDD Slot LED ...................................................... 72
• Max Command Length .................................................... 73
• Auto Activate Incomplete Raid ......................................... 73
• Disk Write Cache Mode ................................................... 73
• Write Same For Initialization............................................ 73
• Hot Plugged Disk For Rebuilding ....................................... 73
• Disk Capacity Truncation Mode......................................... 74
• Smart Option For HDD .................................................... 74
• Smart Polling Interval ..................................................... 75
4.8.2 Advanced Conguration............................................... 75
• TLER Setting ................................................................. 75
• Timeout Setting ............................................................. 76
• Number of Retries .......................................................... 76
• Buffer Threshold ............................................................ 76
• Amount of Read Ahead ................................................... 77
• Number of AV Stream..................................................... 77
• Optimize AV Recording.................................................... 77
• Read Performance Margin................................................ 78
• Write Performance Margin ............................................... 78
• Read And Discard Parity Data .......................................... 78
• BIOS Selection............................................................... 78
4.8.3 HDD Power Management ............................................. 79
• Stagger Power On Control .............................................. 79
• Time to Hdd Low Power Idle ........................................... 80
• Time To Hdd Low RPM Mode ........................................... 80
• SATA Power Up In Standby ............................................. 80
4.8.4 Ethernet Conguration ............................................... 80
• DHCP Function............................................................... 81
• Local IP address............................................................. 81

• Gateway IP address........................................................ 82
• Subnet Mask ................................................................. 82
• HTTP Port Number.......................................................... 82
• Telnet Port Number ........................................................ 82
• SMTP Port Number ......................................................... 82
4.8.5 Alert By Mail Conguration ......................................... 82
4.8.6 SNMP Conguration .................................................... 83
4.8.7 NTP Conguration ...................................................... 83
• NTP Sever Address ......................................................... 84
• Time Zone..................................................................... 84
• Automatic Daylight Saving............................................... 84
4.8.8 View Events/Mute Beeper ............................................ 84
4.8.9 Generate Test Event ................................................... 85
4.8.10 Clear Events Buffer ................................................... 85
4.8.11 Modify Password....................................................... 86
4.8.12 Update Firmware ..................................................... 86
4.9 Information.................................................................... 87
4.9.1 Raid Set Hierarchy...................................................... 87
4.9.1.1 Hdd Xfer Speed ..................................................... 87
4.9.2 SAS Chip Information ................................................. 88
4.9.3 System Information.................................................... 89
4.9.4 Hardware Monitor....................................................... 89
Appendix A ................................................................... 90
Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process...................................... 90
Appendix B .................................................................... 93
Battery Backup Module (ARC-6120BA-T021)............................. 93
B-1 BBM Connector and Components .................................. 93
B-2 Status of BBM ............................................................ 93
B-3 Installation ................................................................ 94
Appendix C .................................................................... 97
SNMP Operation & Installation................................................ 97
Appendix D.................................................................. 102
Event Notication Congurations ........................................ 102
A. Device Event.............................................................. 102
B. Volume Event............................................................. 103
C. RAID Set Event .......................................................... 103
D. Hardware Monitor Event .............................................. 104
Appendix E .................................................................. 105
RAID Concept .................................................................... 105
RAID Set ......................................................................... 105
Volume Set...................................................................... 105

Ease of Use Features......................................................... 106
• Foreground Availability/Background Initialization .............. 106
• Online Array Roaming ................................................... 106
• Online Capacity Expansion............................................. 106
• Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration .................... 108
• Online Volume Expansion .............................................. 109
High Availability ............................................................... 109
• Global/Local Hot Spares ................................................ 109
• Hot-Swap Disk Drive Support......................................... 110
• Auto Declare Hot-Spare ............................................... 110
• Auto Rebuilding ........................................................... 111
• Adjustable Rebuild Priority............................................. 111
High Reliability ................................................................. 112
• Hard Drive Failure Prediction.......................................... 112
• Auto Reassign Sector.................................................... 112
• Consistency Check ....................................................... 113
Data Protection ................................................................ 113
• Battery Backup ........................................................... 113
• Recovery ROM ............................................................. 114
Appendix F .................................................................. 115
Understanding RAID .......................................................... 115
RAID 0............................................................................ 115
RAID 1............................................................................ 116
RAID 10(1E) .................................................................... 117
RAID 3............................................................................ 117
RAID 5............................................................................ 118
RAID 6............................................................................ 119
RAID x0 .......................................................................... 119
Single Disk (Pass-Through Disk) ......................................... 120
Summary of RAID Levels ................................................... 121

SPECIFICATION
8
1. Introduction
This section presents a brief overview of the 6Gb/s SAS RAID storage,
ThunderBox 600. (Thunderbolt 2 & USB 3.0 to 6Gb/s SAS RAID storage)
1.1 Overview
Unleash Your Creativity Faster Than Ever
ThunderBox 600 features two cutting-edge interfaces, Thunderbolt
2 and SuperSpeed USB 3.0. Thunderbolt 2 is full backward compat-
ibility to the same cables and connectors used with today’s Thun-
derbolt. It pushes speed to 20Gb/s and enables 4K video le trans-
fer and display simultaneously. ThunderBox 600 is equipped with
dual Thunderbolt 2 ports for connecting to any Thunderbolt 2-en-
abled host such as the new Mac Pro, and offers an additional Thun-
derbolt 2 port for daisy-chaining other peripherals. The Thunderbolt
daisy-chaining allows connection of up to six devices, so customers
can connect ThunderBox 600 for massive amounts of video storage
with a single Thunderbolt connection to their host computer. Thun-
derBox 600 can meet the demand of users when working with rich,
ultra-high resolution media through Thunderbolt 2 interface. The
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface offers high-performance connectivity
and is backward compatibility with any computer running compat-
ible versions of Mac OS X (such as Mac Pro) or Windows.
Unparalleled Performance for 4K Workow
ThunderBox 600 is a 6-bay 6Gb/s SAS/SATA Thunderbolt 2/USB
3.0 storage with RAID control capabilities solution for Mac and PC
environment. ThunderBox 600 incorporated high performance ROC
and 1GB DDR3 memory with ECC protection to deliver true hard-
ware RAID for the video editor working with real time multi-stream
HD and 4K workows. It runs efciently without disruption or
major drops in performance to meet the requirements of 4K data
workow. It is so quick it allows for 4K displays at the same time
as daisy chaining ThunderBox 600 and doing a simultaneous 4K
output and le transfers while maintaining maximum throughput.

SPECIFICATION
9
Enterprise-class Data Availability and Security
ThunderBox 600 supports the hardware RAID 6 engine to allow
two HDDs failures without impact the existing data and perfor-
mance. It allows users to hot swap drive in the event of a drive
failure with zero downtime. Its high data availability and protection
derives from many advanced RAID features on the design. Intel-
ligent power On/Off function on storage turns power in unison with
the host computer power status. It can intelligently power down
the unit after the thunderbolt host shuts down everything for data
integrity. ThunderBox 600 also supports a battery backup option
that protects all data in cache memory in the event of unexpected
power outage. ThunderBox 600 supports USB 3.0 interface that
allows old Mac Pro user and newest Mac Pro model to access same
storage seamlessly.
Enabling an Easy-to-Manage Storage
Conguration and monitoring can be managed either through the
LCD control panel, Thunderbolt interface or LAN port. The intel-
ligent cooling continuously adapts to environmental conditions by
automatically controlling the speed of the cooling fans for the rap-
idly growing demand from the video editing markets. You can even
congure ThunderBox 600 to intelligently spin down drives during
periods of inactivity to further reduce noise and save energy. LMP
solution of Thunderbolt 2 provides user the capability of adding
bootable drive via Thunderbolt on Apple thunderbolt-capable ma-
chine.

SPECIFICATION
10
1.2 Features
Controller Architecture
• ARM_based 933MHz storage I/O processor
• 1GB on-board DDR3-933 SDRAM with ECC protection
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Support 6 internal 6Gb/s SAS/SATA ports
• Support bootable from RAID storage volume
• Redundant ash image for controller availability
• System status indication through LCD, LED and alarm buzzer
• Intelligent power On/OFF function
• Battery Backup Module ready (optional)
RAID Features
• RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
• Multiple RAID selection
• Support up to 1MB stripe size
• Online array roaming
• Online RAID level/stripe size migration
• Instant availability and background initialization
• Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
• SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support
• Support global and dedicated hot spare
• Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding
• Advanced conguration for smooth data streaming
• Support intelligent power management to save energy and ex-
tend service life
• Complete conguration management suite
- McRAID manager – browser-based management tool (LAN or
Thunderbolt)
- Push Buttons and LCD Display panel for setup and status
- Command Line Interface (CLI)- scriptable conguration tool
- API libraries support - combine GUI with user management
utility
- SNMP support for remote monitoring
- SMTP support for email notication