Panasonic WJ-HDE400 Installation Manual

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23■ Handle the hard disk drivesThe HDD units can be easily installed/removed in/from the HDD slots inside the front cover.Contact your dealer about purchasing, installing, and replacing the hard disk drives.Important:• Hard disk drives are precise devices. Note the following when handling them.• They are vulnerable to vibration. Handle them with care.• Before touching a hard disk drive, release static electricity from your body using an anti-static grounding strap, etc. Even afterreleasing static electricity, hold the side of the hard disk drive when carrying it.• To prevent damage to the hard disk drive from static electricity, do not touch the circuit board and the connectors of the harddisk drive.• Contact your dealer for further information about hard disk drives compatible with this extension unit. Operation using a hard diskdrive that is not recommended is not guaranteed under any circumstances.• When using multiple hard disk drives, use the same model.If different models are used together even when the capacities of them are the same, the available capacity may be a few percentsmaller.• Insert the HDD units one by one in order starting from HDD1.(The leftmost slot of the HDD slots is HDD1 and the rightmost one is HDD9.)• Once the operation has started in the RAID 5 or RAID 6 mode, do not change the positions of the HDD units. If they are changed,it may become impossible to read recorded data.Item Contents Ref. pageInstallation (insertion)Individual HDD units Install the HDD units 24All the HDD units in the exten-sion unitInstall (link) all the HDD units in the extensionunit at the same time 25RemovalIndividual HDD units Remove the HDD units 26All the HDD units in the exten-sion unitRemove all the HDD units in the extension unitat the same time 28Operational mode setting All of the HDD units Determine the operational mode 29Replacement/recoveryIn the single mode Install the HDD unitsRemove the HDD units 24, 26In the RAID 5/RAID 6 modeData recoveryData recovery (in the RAID 5/RAID 6 mode) 30