SimpleTech ZeusIOPS - Manual (Page 71)

Zeus IOPS 3.5-Inch Fibre Channel Solid State Drive Product Manual Rev. 1.0 71
O PERATING S YSTEM S PECIFICATIONS
The Zeus IOPS SSDs are compatible with Microsoft Windows® and alternative operating systems.
The SSDs are low-level formatted at the factory. However, the SSDs must be partitioned and high-
level formatted. The SSDs can be formatted as boot drives or data storage drives using any standard
disk partitioning and formatting utility.
M ICROSOFT OS C OMPATIBILITY
The SSDs are fully compatible with the following Microsoft operating systems, using the native
drivers supplied with the OS:
• Windows 2000, Service Packs 2, 3 and 4
• Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server
• Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional, Service Packs 1 and 2
• Windows XP, 64-Bit Extended
• Windows 2003 Standard, Enterprise, 64-bit, Web, Datacenter, Small Business Server
• MS-DOS
• Windows Pre-boot Environment (WinPE)
The drives are compatible with the current version of MS-DOS real-mode drivers bundled with any of
the Microsoft operating systems for reading files from optical media.
A LTERNATIVE O PERATING S YSTEMS
The drives are fully compatible with the following operating systems, using the native drivers supplied
with the OS:
• Linux Distributions (with Fibre Channel support)
• Sun Microsystems Solaris 8 and 10
• SGI IRIX
• HPUX
S YSTEM POST, B OOT AND R ESUME T IMES
The time required for the drive to become ready varies according to the capacity. The average time
is 30 seconds. The total boot time will vary depending on the state of the capacitor-based power
backup module. Under normal operation, the module will remain in a state where it holds enough of
a charge to that the charging causes no delay to the boot-up. When the drive is new or remains
without power for many hours, the capacitors on the power backup module will be discharged. If the
capacitors are fully discharged the drive will take longer to start. For example: 18GB, fully discharged
35 seconds, charged 11 seconds; 146GB fully discharged 45 seconds, charged 23 seconds.