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The SAFE storage policy stores all data in duplicate on separate drives to protect
against data loss due to drive failure. One drive mirrors the other at all times,
equivalent to RAID 1. Every write operation goes to both drives. SAFE provides
the highest level of data protection for 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 SAFE 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 SAFE volume is still usable, but it is in a vulnerable state
because its mirrored hard drive is inaccessible. When the offline drive comes
back online, the appliance begins a rebuild process immediately to restore data
redundancy. A message box appears in the GUI to notify you that a rebuild is in
progress.
Although the volume remains available during the rebuild process, the volume is
susceptible to data loss through damage to the remaining drive until redundancy
is restored at the end of the rebuild and verification process. Host access takes
precedence over the rebuild process. If you continue to use the SAFE volume
during the rebuild, the rebuild process will take a longer time to complete, and the
host data transfer performance will also be affected.

SAFE(RAID1)

4.4 Support system Windows 2000/XP/VISTA & Mac os 9.0 or above version
4.5 System Expansion for Windows
Overview

This appendix describes the procedures needed with Microsoft Windows for
expanding file systems that have been created on volumes that 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 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

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Attention:

2.1.1 JBOD MODE

JBOD

START

My Computer

manage

1. If you use two HDD simultaneously and discover that the LED1 or LED2
glittering with blue & red lights in turn for a long time. Please check and see if the
HDD has installed correctly.
2. If you simultaneously use two HDD, and the HDD gets damaged under RAID0,
JBOD, and BIG pattern, the data on the HDD will be lost. Under the RAID1
pattern, you may consider to take out the damaged HDD and replace formatted
HDD instead. The “ REBUILDING” function will start by pressing the “Start” button
and the data will be recovered.

The two drives were connected to the products HDD1 and HDD2 Connector.
USB&Power Cable were connected;
Opening the power switch, pulling MODE switch to

and press

switch, after a few seconds, the computer will automatically capture USB devices
and increased 2 drives(If not drive there, then the hard disk drive management
will re-zoning which format),At the 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:

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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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