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MERIDIAN MEDIA DRIVE 600
Meridian’s Media Drive 600 is a complete storage solution for your Meridian Sooloos Digital Media System, including twin front-loading drive bays configured for automatically-mirrored backup and maximum reliability.
Within Media Drive 600 is a pair of frontloading hard drive bays, each capable of carrying pairs of identical drives with capacity of up to 2TB each. The drives are configured as a RAID 1 array with automatic mirrored backup: thus the storage offered by the system in its standard configuration is up to 2TB. These allow the unit to store approximately 5,000 CD albums in FLAC format. Via Meridian’s Technical Support department, the drives can alternatively be configured as a RAID 0 array for a total of 4 TB primary storage, with backup being handled externally.
Media Drive 600 can be fitted with a range of drive pairs selected from an approved list published on the Meridian web site and updated as new drives become available for testing.
The unit includes DHCP-enabled network connection for easy discovery by other Sooloos components in the system and the Media Drive 600’s storage is automatically integrated with any other Meridian Sooloos-compatible storage discovered by the system.
The unit features a special high quality, high efficiency switch mode power supply for maximum performance and reliability Remote support & diagnostics. The storage provided by the Media Drive 600 can be and remotely monitored by Meridian to ensure maximum performance;
if a potential problem is found with either of the drives, such as a drive nearing the end of its life, the Meridian retailer or installer can be alerted to allow them to take remedial action (such as drive replacement) before any problem with operation is experienced by the user.
In common with the Media Core 600, the Media Drive 600 features automatic replacement drive recognition. In the case of drive failure, the unit is simply powered down and at this point a new blank drive can be fitted. Once powered up again, the new drive is recognised automatically
and the contents of the existing drive are cloned on to it with no need for operator intervention.
Outline Technical Specification
Drive bays
• Supplied with bays for two up to 2TB drives
configured as a RAID 1 system
Controls
• Rear panel power switch
• Front panel back-lit on/off button
Indicators
• Power button LED illuminates blue during
startup and shudown; white when operating.
• Six front-panel LEDs as follows (L-R):
LED 1: Error indicator
On=boot failure; flashing=drive mount failure.
LED 2: Temperature indicator
On=product overheating
LED 3: CPU load indicator
On=CPU is running at greater than 80%
usage.
LED 4: RAID drive 1 failure indicator
On=RAID marked drive 1 as failed.
LED 5: RAID drive 2 failure indicator
On=RAID marked drive 2 as failed.
LED 6: Ethernet disconnect indicator
On=Ethernet cable is not detected
• If RAID1 and RAID2 LEDs are toggling, one
of the drives is being restored to – ie a single
new drive has been inserted with an existing
working drive.
• If all six LEDs are illuminating sequentially
back and forth, the drives are being initialized
with a new filesystem, i.e. two new drives
have been inserted.
Power
• Mains operation, universal voltage power
supply
Weight
• TBA
Dimensions
• 440 x 97 (2U) x 350mm (18 x 3.8 x 13.8in)
not including rear connectors (WHD)
Finish
• Bead-blasted, anodised, black and silver
aluminium uniform with Media Source 600
Guide price £2500.00
