QUAD-BAY HDD ENCLOSURE USER'S MANUAL
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1. only support in USB2 0 Mode Please switch off at all time while connect to eSATA port zm Supported in USB2 0 O Q switch on to activate ON lt gt OFF System Startup am Not supported in eSATA Q Q switch off when use eSATA port ON lt gt OFF System Startup 6 Setting up RAID level USB2 0 eSATA QUAD BAY RAID BOX support Hardware RAID function allow user easily setup form J BOD RAID 0 and RAID 0 1 to suit individual needs Reset Button Press for 5 seconds to reboot RAID configuration Important info All data will be lost after change RAID settings Therefore please back up your date before running RAID level change a JBOD Mode Spanning HDD Required 2 4 HDD The RAID Box shows up as one large single volume Spanning is an array which written sequentially across the drives it does not provide any performance redundancy benefits use this if you have installed either 2 3 or 4 hard drivers with different capacities JBOD Spanning e g 200G Step1 Insert two or four hard disk drive Step2 Power on the Quad BAY RAID Box Step3 Adjust the switch to the indication below ggg Step4 Press the reset button for 5 seconds RAID box will reboot automatically and change the JBOD mode Important info For 2 HDD installation in JBOD mode Please install in slot 1 3 For 2 HDD installation JBOD Power Action HDD1 HDD2 HDD3 HDD4 oo S Error B 2 x J BOD Mode HDD requir2. QUAD BAY RAID BOX USER S MANUAL 1 Product Overview USB2 0 eSATA QUAD BAY RAID BOX is a function friendly and cost effective storage solution for home and SOHO users With smart RAID technology supports RAID 0 1 to provide a total data protection by mirroring your files to the second hard drive and RAID O can utilize four hard drives to maximize data transfer speed and increase storage capacity 2 Product features Portable desktop design Easy HDD removable design Aluminum body design Support USB 2 0 specification transfer rate up to 480Mbps Support eSATA specification transfer rate up to 3Gbps Support Plug and Play functions Support SATA II Hard Drive Support system power on off function Support RAID 0 0 1 JBOD Mode RAID Level supported RAID 0 Mode RAID 0 1 Mode 3 LED indications Power RAID HDD1 HDD2 HDD3 HDD4 Poweron Active Active Active HDD fail No HDD install 4 Hardware installation 1 Remove the front Panel O Slowly insert Hard Disk in to HDD Rail 3 Close the front panel after Hard disk complete installed Connect either USB2 0 or eSATA Cable in to computer Computer O Turn on the power switch G Connect power cable 5 System startup function Only Available in USB2 0 interface System start up function is to synchronize the Quad BAY RAID box power with PC power it turns on automatically while PC turns on and vice versa when PC turns off This function
3. drive fails after replaced with new one the data goes to rebuilt automatically Simply follow the steps below Step1 Make sure fail HDD slot number if fail happened in slot 3 amp 4 simply replace with new HDD drive for data rebuilding Step2 when fail happened in Slot 1 amp 2 please remove both HDD and swap slot 3 amp 4 hard disk in to Slot 1 amp 2 to become master recovery disk Step3 Replace with new dick drive in slot 3 or 4 for data rebuilding Below is the example when slot 1 HDD fails Move slot 3 4 HDD to 1 2 slot Replace with new Hard Disk 2 Move Slot 2 HDD to slot 4 Power Action HDD1 HDD HDD3 HDD4 DOUEOU L Error 7 Technical Tips 1 USB2 0 eSATA QUAD HDD Enclosure is using Silicon image chipset and support latest port multiplier specification and therefore host card must support either port multiplier function or follow INTEL ICH9 specifications e g Silicon image host controller SLI3124 SLi3132 or SLi3531 2 We highly suggest user in order to perform RAID 0 1 Mirroring Striping mode must install same capacity HDD at the same time otherwise system is likely to rebuilding the HDD every time restart the device
4. ds RAID box will reboot automatically and change the RAID O mode Important info For the RAID O mode hard drives of identical capacity and make are recommended If the capacity is different the total amount of the space that can be used will depend on the drive with the smallest capacity D RAID 0 1 Mirroring Striping HDD required 4 HDD The drives show up as one single volume This mode requires 4 identical drives to implement RAID 1 creates an exact copy or mirror of a set of data This is useful when reliability and backup are more important than data capacity The available capacity to the user will only be as large as 50 of the total capacity of all drives combined but when one hard drive fails it can be replaced and the data rebuilt automatically RAID 0 1 Mirroring Striping Storage space e g 2 TB Back up space e g 2 TB Step1 Insert four hard disk drive Step2 Power on the Quad BAY RAID Box Step3 Adjust the switch to the indication below GEGGHE Step4 Press the reset button for 5 seconds RAID box will reboot automatically and change to the 0 1 mode Important info To use RAID 0 1 mode the hard drives of identical capacity and maker are recommended If the capacity is different the total amount of the space that can be used will depend on the drive with the smallest capacity 6 Rebuilding data Only in RAID 0 1 mode Under the RAID 0 1 mode when one hard
5. e 4 HDD when HDD capacity over 750GB Due to the HDD capacity support limitation form Microsoft windows single drive volume can only Shows up to 2TB in Microsoft Windows therefore to be able to support 4 x 750GB capacity or above hard drive in Microsoft windows the 2 x JBOD mode is required 2 X JBOD Mode m A D fah pfa D E A Step1 Insert 4 hard disk drive Step2 Power on the unit Step3 Adjust the switch to the indication below PgR Step4 Press the reset button for 5 seconds RAID box will reboot automatically and change the 2 x JBOD mode Important info For Windows VISTA 64 bit version it Do Not have 2TB limitation support problem C RAID O striping striping HDD required 4 HDD The drives show up as one large single volume This mode requires 4 identical drives to implement Used where speed is the primary objective RAID Level 0 also called striping is not redundant This form of array splits each piece of data across the drives in segments since data is written without any form of parity data checking it allows for the fastest data transfer of all other modes However if one drive becomes damaged the whole array can become corrupted RAID O Striping ri A Se m D D E Pj Ai Step1 Insert at lease four hard disk drive Step2 Power on the Quad BAY RAID Box Step3 Adjust the switch to the indication below pgg Step4 Press the reset button for 5 secon
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