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2.1.4 RAID1/SAFE

RAID1

RESET + START

My Computer

manage

The two drives were connected to the products HDD1 and HDD2 Connector;
USB & Power cable were connected.
Press power switch, set MODE switch to

and press

button. After a few seconds, the computer will automatically capture USB devices
and increased 2 drives (If no drive there, then the hard disk drive management will
re-zoning which format). At this moment you can operate the disk. Re-zoning
which drives formatted as follows (All information will be eliminated when Format
hard drives);
Click “

”, right-clicking pop-up menu, click Options “

”, pop-

up computer management plan was pop-up as follow:

Click “

:

Right pop-up The additional disks (

:) and the additional disks (F :)' menus,

choose “

”.

Click “

”, followed by a clew to operate

Disks Management” plan

H

Delete Disk Segmentation

Segmentation additional disks

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5. Select

from the Format drop-down list.

6. Specify the size of the partition in the

field.

7. Click the

button.

8. Click

to acknowledge the warning.

Mac OS Extended (journaled)

Size

Partition

Partition

Disk Utility mounts the created partition and represents it with an icon on the
desktop. The icon is labeled with the partition name.

1. If this product is in use for the first time or the mode (

) 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/FAST,
RAID1/SAFE) you must press the RESET + START button, so that the enclosure
can distinguish the exact mode.
3. If you require a faster data transfer,

MODE will be suggested to

use.
4. If you require a higher data security,

MODE will be suggested to

use.
5. If you require a bigger hard disk capacity,

will be suggested to use.

The FANTEC MR-35HDC provides the following Serial Advanced Technology
Attachment (SATA) features:
Automatic negotiation between SATA I (1.5Gbps) and SATA II (3.0 Gbps)
Serial ATA 2.5 specification compliance (Gen2m)
For detailed information about SATA technology, refer to the following

3. NOTE :

BIG, JBOD, RAID0/FAST,

RAID1/SAFE

RAID0/FAST

RAID1/ SAFE

BIG MODE

4. Features
4.1 High speed external storage solution, USB2.0 480 Mbps
SATA Features

specifications online:
Serial ATA: High Speed Serialized AT Attachment, Revision 1.0a
The Serial ATA web site is http://www.serialata.org/.

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Summary of Contents for MR-35HDC

Page 1: ...FANTEC MR 35HDC HARD DISK COPYSTATION USER MANUAL Red RAID Blue Dup POWER Copy Compare Prescan Erase RAID0 RAID1 BIG JBOG Start Mute Reset RAID DUP ...

Page 2: ...peration and mode switch to Copy 3 Connect the power cord 4 Push down the Power button 5 The front panel will display Power LED On Blue Operation LED On Blue 6 The unit will detect HDD automatically and HDD status LED will red twinkle during this time After the detection has finished the HDD status LED will become blue and mode LED will stay in green color The modes LED flashes according to your s...

Page 3: ... will stay green This mode enables a bad sector scan of HDD2 Source HDD If the sectors are ok it will beep 6 times and the Prescan LED will stay green This mode deletes partition information of HDD1 slot1 After the task has finished it will beep 6 times and the Erase LED will stay green T C E F F E T N E V E No HDD detected or HDD failed HDD Status LED will send red light t h g i l e u l b d n e s...

Page 4: ... time 2sec c Push down the Mute button to end the buzzer beep When the unit works in RAID1 mode and one of the HDDs was replaced due to a damage or exchange please press the Start button until it beeps two times in order to activate the rebuild of the RAID1 system After the rebuild has finished it will beep again for one time The rebuild will be executed from slot 1 to slot 2 if HDD in slot 2 was ...

Page 5: ...detection has finished the HDD status LED will become purple and function LED will twinkle in green 8 Press the Start button for more than 2 seconds and a buzzer will beep for two times Now the system will start to change the mode 19 4 Connect to the computer host through USB turn on the power and press the Start button Instruction will be presented in the following graph Turn the switch to RAID0 ...

Page 6: ...ifferent HDD The material transmission completes when LED sends blue light HDD1 and HDD2 LED glitter in turn with blue red lights Self checking completes when LED sends blue light HDD1 and HDD2 LED glitter in turn with blue red lights Self checking completes when LED sends blue light PATTERN HDD carries on the self checking RAID0 Material transmission Under the material transmission condition The ...

Page 7: ...t have increased in size while preserving all of your existing data After you have added more hard disk drives to increase the storage capacity of a BIG volume you must use the supplemental procedure described below to allow the expanded capacity to be recognized by the Windows file system A command line utility named Disk part exe Disk Partition enables you to manage hard disk partitions and volu...

Page 8: ... Port 1 and pressing the Mode Change push button The new disk blocks of Port 1 will be concatenated to the end of the disk blocks of Port 0 and any data that is stored on the existing BIG volume will be preserved However it is not possible to expand an existing BIG volume by adding another hard disk drive to Port 0 and still preserve any existing data on that volume The JBOD Just a Bunch of Disks ...

Page 9: ... hard drives such as speed storage capacity or data storage reliability The BIG storage policy concatenates a series of physical hard drives as a single large volume resulting in a seamless expansion of virtual volumes beyond the physical limitations of singularly connected hard drives The BIG storage policy delivers maximum storage space without a single large capacity and costly hard drive Hard ...

Page 10: ...ty mounts the created partition and represents it with an icon on the desktop The icon is labeled with the partition name 1 If this product is in use for the first time or the mode 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 FAST RAID1 SAFE you must press the RESET START b...

Page 11: ...onnected to the unit BIG 3 Select 1 from the drop down list 4 Enter a name for the volume in the field such as My BIG disk Partition Volume Scheme Name 13 2 1 5 Partitioning Volumes Partition a Volume MS Windows Important Not Initialized My Computer Manage This section explains how to partition volumes after configuring them in the GUI You must partition volumes for the host computer s operating s...

Page 12: ...ox appears allowing you to select which disks to initialize Uncheck the SteelVine Processor Disk item and click Within a few seconds the selected disk s should be marked as a disk 3 Right click the configured disk s unallocated space and select If the New Partition option is not available select the disk and initialize it first To do this right click on the disk item and select Basic Online Unknow...

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