FANTEC
MR-35DU3
USER MANUAL
Manual
Page 1: ...FANTEC MR 35DU3 USER MANUAL ...
Page 2: ...2 BIG Modus 7 2 1 3 RAID0 8 2 1 4 RAID1 9 2 1 5 Partitioning Volumes 10 3 Note 14 4 Features 15 4 1 High speed external storage solution 15 4 2 Serial ATA HDD 15 4 3 4 Working Modes BIG JBOD RAID0 RAID1 15 4 4 Supported Systems 18 4 4 1 System Expansion for Windows Overview 18 5 Package contens 19 ...
Page 3: ...2 1 Product Introduction SATA 2x HDD to USB 3 0 5 0G interface Front Back ...
Page 4: ...doorknob and the installation will be completed The step will be represented in terms of following graphs Note Sway from side to side the lock at the instructed point which you could open the doorknob to install unload the hard disk In contrast when you sway from side to side the lock at the instructed point then you may not open it ...
Page 5: ...JBOD JBOD LED keep bright and the host will be entering the JBOD active status Turn the switch to BIG BIG LED will keep bright the host will be entering the BIG active status Hard disk LED sends blue light and has long lasting bright light which indicates the hard disk connection is correct Hard disk LED sends the purple light and does not stop flashing which indicates the hard disk performing a D...
Page 6: ... shows the blue light After power on and insertion of one or two HD the following LED states appear after a HD failure In this example HDD1 is normal and HDD2 is damaged otherwise vice versa PATTERN HDD carries on the self checking Data transmission RAID0 HDD1 and the HDD2 LED flashing in turn with purple lights Self checking completes when the HDD1 LED shows blue light and the HDD2 LED goes out N...
Page 7: ...ct the device with the USB Power cable Turn on the power switch the Mode to JBOD and press the Reset button for a few seconds the computer will automatically recognize the USB device and two new drives should appear If no new drive shows up you have to initialize and or format the disks in the Disk Management Attention after formatting all data will be erased Right click on My Computer click Manag...
Page 8: ... the computer will automatically recognize the USB device Right click on My Computer click Manage the Computer Management should appear where you choose Disk Management You should find the new disks flagged as Unknown and Unallocated Right click the Unknown disk and select Initialize Disk now you can format the disk by right clicking the Unallocated Disk and choose New Partition or Add New Volume ...
Page 9: ...the computer will automatically recognize the USB device Right click on My Computer click Manage the Computer Management should appear where you choose Disk Management You should find the new disks flagged as Unknown and Unallocated Right click the Unknown disk and select Initialize Disk now you can format the disk by right clicking the Unallocated Disk and choose New Partition or Add New Volume ...
Page 10: ...n and Unallocated Right click the Unknown disk and select Initialize Disk now you can format the disk by right clicking the Unallocated Disk and choose New Partition or Add New Volume Note When one of the hard disk is crashed the new hard drive has to be replaced while the device is running Turn the unit off and remove the faulty hard disk At the next step turn on the unit with the functional hard...
Page 11: ... guidance Partitioning a hard drive MS Windows Important Before reconfiguring a volume back up your data and delete previously defined partitions If no hard disk drives are connected to the device the disks appear as Not Initialized with no capacity allocated to it Do not initialize or modify that device 1 Right click the My Computer icon on your desktop and select Manage from the pop up window 2 ...
Page 12: ... select Revert to Basic Disk Within a few seconds the disk should be marked as a Basic disk If a disk is marked Not Initialized right click the disk icon and select Initialize Disk An additional dialog box appears allowing you to select which disks to initialize Uncheck the Disk item and click OK Within a few seconds the selected disk s should be marked as a Basic disk 3 Right click the configured...
Page 13: ... Specify the partition size By default the partition occupies the entire volume Click Next 7 Assign a drive letter or mount path and click Next 8 Name and format the partition and click 9 Review the file system settings and click to create the logical partition ...
Page 14: ...artition After you configure and partition the new volumes restore the backed up data to the new configuration 1 Launch Disk Utility from the Application Utilities folder 2 Select a configured disk and click the Partition tab This procedure illustrates the BIG Storage Policy configuration which concatenates the capacity of all hard drives connected to the device 3 Select 1 Partition from the Volum...
Page 15: ... is in use for the first time or the mode BIG JBOD RAID0 RAID1 is changed we must initialize and format the HDD before All information will be eliminated when format hard drives 2 When you need to change different mode BIG JBOD RAID0 RAID1 you must press the RESET button so that the enclosure can distinguish the exact mode 3 If you require a faster data transfer RAID0 MODE will be suggested to use...
Page 16: ... following specifications online Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 1 1 Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2 0 The USB Organization web site is http www usb org 4 2 Serial ATA HDD Populated with two Serial ATA SATA hard disk drives HDDs each unit can manage as much as 4 000 gigabytes i e 4 terabytes of data depending on the capacity of the hard disk drives that are installed By c...
Page 17: ...y hard drive Hard drive A and B are concatenated into a single virtual volume in the Figure below with a storage capacity that is equal to the sum of each of the physical hard drives A and B JBOD The JBOD Just a Bunch of Disks storage policy enables each hard drive to be seen separately as one drive JBOD storage policy is for a standalone non cascaded Storage Processor or the top level node of a c...
Page 18: ...r critical data that you cannot afford to lose if a hard drive fails but halves the amount of storage capacity because all data must be stored twice The resulting storage capacity of the virtual RAID1 volume will be equivalent to the size of one hard drive if both drives are the same or the smaller of the two drives if they are different If one drive fails the RAID1 volume is still usable but it i...
Page 19: ...nables you to manage hard disk partitions and volumes This utility is included as part of Windows XP Professional Edition Windows 2003 Server and Windows Vista For Windows 2000 or Windows XP Home Edition you must download the disk part utility from Microsoft s website Additional third party products such as Norton Partition Magic are available to perform similar volume management activities but th...
Page 20: ...f the existing data that is stored on the volume The result of extending the hard disk partition volume is illustrated below Before extend After extend Note Before the hard drive partition volume has been extended the 152 67GB Unallocated was not accessible for data usage After using the disk part utility to extend the hard drive partition volume capacity the Windows host side matches the virtual ...
