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User Guide Seagate® X8 Accelerator for Windows Powered by Virident ST2200FS0000 ST1100FS0000 ST1100FR0000 ST550FR0000 100728273 Rev. A June 2013 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 2
. All rights reserved. Publication number: 100728273, Rev. A June 2013 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Seagate X8 Accelerator and SeaTools are either trademarks or registered trademarks of - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 3
27 9.0 Dynamic Throttling 28 9.1 Thermal Throttling 28 9.2 Power Throttling 28 10.0 Application Notes 30 10.1 Data Block Sizes and Alignments 30 10.2 IOMeter 30 iii Seagate X8 Accelerator for Windows User Guide, Rev. A - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 4
Troubleshooting 32 11.1 Cannot Find Block Device /dev/vgca0 32 11.2 Performance is Lower than Expected 33 11.3 Driver Crash on System Boot 33 11.4 IOs are not Being Processed because the Driver is Hung 33 12.0 Onboard Diagnostic LEDs 33 13.0 Contacting Support 33 iv Seagate X8 Accelerator - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 5
services to third parties; f Take any actions that would cause the Software to become subject to any open source license agreement if it is not already subject to such an agreement; and g Remove or alter any proprietary notices or marks on the Product. Seagate X8 Accelerator for Windows User Guide - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 6
download or otherwise export or re-export the Software or any related technical data directly or indirectly to the above-mentioned countries or to citizens, nationals, or residents of those countries, or to any other restricted end user or for any restricted end-use. Seagate X8 Accelerator - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 7
, the end user receiving this EULA and the Software agrees to all the EULA terms. Any attempted assignment in violation of this Section is void. Seagate, the Seagate logo, and other Seagate names and logos are the trademarks of Seagate. Seagate X8 Accelerator for Windows User Guide, Rev. A 3 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 8
PCIe slot and good air movement. The table below shows host memory the X8 Accelerator will use based on capacity. The DRAM requirements mentioned above are only meant for each X8 Accelerator device. OS and other applications will need additional DRAM. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 9
. NOTE Some systems have PCIe slots with x8 physical connectors but only provide x4 electrical connectivity. From a performance point of view these slots behave like an x4 slot. Check your system documentation for PCIe slot specifications. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 5 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 10
an issue in Xeon E5-2600 series processors that may result in severe drops of PCIe and X8 Accelerator bandwidth when running workloads that have low CPU consumption. To avoid this issue, C2 /specification-updates/xeon-e5-family-spec-update.pdf SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 6 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 11
and Utilities Installation driver is found on the USB drive shipped with the X8 Accelerator or at http://www.seagate.com/support/ downloads/ for the supported Operating Systems versions All of the following installation instructions need to be executed as an Administrator. A reboot of the system is - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 12
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"Seagate X8 Accelerator X8 Accelerator Controller" Under Storage Controllers as "Seagate X8 Accelerator card" And, when the drive is brought online (covered in the following section), under Disk Drives as "Seagate X8 Accelerator SCSI Disk Device". SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 14
and Beacon information. The latter half of the panel displays the Device Name, Status, Temperature, Remaining Life, Serial Number, Model and Usable Capacity of the X8 Accelerator device. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 10 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 15
6.1.1 Details Displayed: SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 11 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 16
Details To check the details of any specific X8 Accelerator device, click on the device name listed on the left panel of the snapin. In the as shown above. Beacon can be used to identify a particular device in a system with multiple devices. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 12 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 17
To use the X8 Accelerator device, create a Logical Drive. Eg, E: and H: etc. 6.3.1 Creating a Logical Drive Use the Disk Management interface to bring the device online for use by windows. This is a mandatory step to ensure device mapping. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 13 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 18
"MBR" the maximum size will only be 2 TB. GPT is recommended for 2.2TB devices if the max capacity of the device needs to be utilized. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 14 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 19
settings please back up your data since changing settings NOTE will lead to data loss. The following example walks you through a reset. To Reset the X8 Accelerator device, click the reset button vgc[a, b, c, ---]. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 15 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 20
Click OK to confirm. Choose Yes to confirm. Reset commences. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 16 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 21
Partition allows you to change mode. NOTE 500GB and 1100GB devices do not support split partition. The following example shows how to create a new partition on the device vgca0. Choose either Maximum Capacity or Maximum Performance mode. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 17 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 22
Choose either Maximum Capacity or Maximum Performance Choose Yes to proceed. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 18 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 23
new partition vgca1. 6.4.3 Modify Existing Partition To modify existing partition on Seagate X8 Accelerator device, click on Modify vgc[a, b, c, ---][0-1] Physical Partition layout. . The following example shows modifying partition vgca0: SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 19 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 24
configuration complete in progress. Modify configuration is complete Once the partition is modified, user can check the new settings of partition under Physical Partition tab. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 20 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 25
the Seagate X8 Accelerator drive. The test will create a 4GB test file and exercise reads and writes to that file. Should any performance or configuration problems be noted, please check the Troubleshooting and Performance Optimization sections of this guide or contact Seagate Support. SEAGATE X8 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 26
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need to select a number of partitions ("-n XX") and a write performance profile ("-m YYY") to set up the Seagate X8 Accelerator devices for use. IMPORTANT: Changing the partitioning of the X8 Accelerator drive will erase NOTE existing data. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 23 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 28
Settings Individual partitions may be customized using "-p vgca[0|1]" to change write acceleration mode. Only the following options may be specified in this mode: Following example shows "Modifying Partition" info for Partition vgcb1 SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 24 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 29
devices do not support split partition. To set SAN policy you could use "SAN command in disk part". If SAN policy of system set as "OnlineAll", it will automatically bring the volumes online. See the following screen shots for an example. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 25 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 30
device, specify the device using the '-d' parameter as follows: The first section of the monitor output shows physical characteristics of the Seagate X8 Accelerator drive such as raw device size, serial numbers, and overall device health. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 26 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 31
" to "Action required". This error code can be used by Seagate support to identify the issue and administer corrective actions (such as replacement • NIST SP800-88 - Complies with instructions for Flash EPROM (http://csrc.nist.gov present. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 27 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 32
back to maximum level. 9.2 POWER THROTTLING Power throttling reduces IO performance of X8 Accelerator devices if power consumption goes above the default threshold of 24W. It comes Threshold, and IO Performance levels are done at factory. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 28 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 33
vgc-monitor.exe -d vgca You can also refer to X8 Accelerator Manager to verify the status of Temperature Throttling. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 29 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 34
10.0 APPLICATION NOTES 10.1 DATA BLOCK SIZES AND ALIGNMENTS The Seagate X8 Accelerator drive exposes 512 byte sectors, but is internally organized in but do have a negative impact on the much higher performing Seagate X8 Accelerator Drive. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 30 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 35
. By default, accesses are sector (512b) aligned and, as discussed previously, this can result in lower than expected performance. The required option is highlighted below: SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 31 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 36
the following command: # vgc-monitor -d vgc[a, b, c---] If device status is "Critical" or "Warning", then check "Action Required" field in the output of vgc-monitor for instructions on the next steps. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 32 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 37
what each combination of these LEDs indicates: 13.0 CONTACTING SUPPORT • Email: Support.seagate.com • Phone: 1-800-SEAGATE (1-800-732-4238) • Website: http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/ssd/x8-accelerator/ SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 33 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 38
10 Configuring Multiple Partitions 25 Contacting Support 33 Creating a Logical Drive 13 Seagate X8 Accelerator Manager 10 Single Board 5 Software EULA 1 System BIOS Settings 6 System Requirements 4 T Thermal Throttling 28 Troubleshooting SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE, REV. A 34 - Seagate ST1100FS0000 | Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Windows - Page 39
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