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Grass Valley K2 Summit Storage Area Network Installation User Manual

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3. In the Storage Utility main window, identify bound RANKs and unbound disks by their placement

in the hierarchy of the tree view. In the following illustration, disk numbers are represented by
“XX”.

Nearline systems store media files across both the primary RAID chassis and the optional
Expansion chassis. In addition, metadata files and journal files are mixed in with the media files.

The RAID configuration is the same on all chassis. Each chassis contains SATA disks, which
are bound as RAID 6 in a RANK of twelve disks. One twelve disk RANK fills one chassis.

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K2 SAN Installation and Service Manual

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Configuring and licensing the K2 SAN