Data is written to all hard drives in parallel, resulting in an
increase in data transfer rate.
Important notice:
In case of failure of one hard disk in the „striping“
network, all data of the entire network will be lost.
Place the two hard disks in the inner frame and connect the
device to your PC using a USB 3.1 cable. Set the RAID 0 mode
and press the reset button for about 10 seconds. The PC will
now automatically detect a new USB device and after a short
time a new disk should be displayed. This new disk must first
be initialized and formatted (Attention: after formatting, all data
is deleted). To do this, please open the disk management by
clicking on the Windows Start icon (Windows 10 right-click)
and enter „diskmgmt.msc“ in the search window and confirm
with ENTER.
After that, Disk Management will open and you should find a
new hard drive marked as „Unknown/Not Initialized“.
Make a right click on the unknown drive and select „Initialize“,
now you can format the disk with a right click on „Unallocated“.
Place the two hard disks in the inner frame and connect the
device to your PC via USB 3.1 cable. Set the RAID 1 mode
and press the reset button for about 10 seconds. The PC will
now automatically detect a new USB device and after a short
time a new disk should be displayed. This new disk must first
be initialized and formatted. If no new drive is displayed, the
hard disk must first be initialized and formatted (Attention: after
formatting, all data is deleted). To do this, please open the Disk
Management by clicking on the Windows Start icon (Windows
10 right-click) and enter „diskmgmt.msc“ in the search window
and confirm with ENTER. After that, Disk Management will open
and you should find a new hard drive marked as „Unknown/Not
Initialized“.
Right click on the unknown drive and select „Initialize“, now you
can format the disk by right clicking on „Unallocated“. Select
„New Simple Volume“ and follow the process via the Next
button until you reach the Finish button.
8. General Notes
1. changing RAID mode will result in data loss.
2. please follow the instruction manual when you want to
change the RAID mode, otherwise the setup may fail.
3. if the power supply is not enough or you notice a clicking
sound from the hard drives, please use the included USB cable
for additional power supply.
4. hard drives of the same size, brand and model number is
recommended.
5. using multiple partitions is not recommended.
6. when using storage capacities larger than 2TB, Windows
7/8/10 users may initialize hard disks as GPT disks. However,
older operating systems might not recognize this mode.
For more information about GTP disks, please visit the following
page: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT_
FAQ.mspx.
If you have accidentally used MBR disks, you need to switch the
device to another RAID mode and make all settings according
to the selected RAID mode. After that, you can set the device
back to the originally desired RAID mode and initialize the disks
as GPT disks. The data will be lost in the process.
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Select „New Simple Volume“ and follow the process via the
Next button until you reach the Finish button.
RAID 1 mode
To set the RAID 1 mode, please set only dip switch 2 to „ON“
as shown in the graphic above. In this mode, both hard disks
are combined into one mirrored hard disk and only a single
drive is displayed on your computer as well.
The available storage capacity is equal to the storage capacity
of the smaller hard disk (when using two different hard disks)
Normally this mode is used when data security by means of
„mirroring“ has the highest priority. Mirroring is the automatic
distribution of data to several hard disks. This ensures a high
level of data security. If one hard disk fails, access is still
possible and after replacing the defective hard disk, the data
mirror is restored.
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