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Connect to computer 

1. 

Connect the mini USB end of the USB cable into the mini USB 
port of the HDD enclosure. 

2. 

Connect the other end of the USB cable (type A) into any 
active USB port of the computer. 

3. 

Connect the USB power cable to the enclosure and into an 
available USB port of the computer. 

4. 

Let OS search and install the driver automatically. 

5. 

Use the disk management tool (PC) or disk utility (Mac) to 
create a new partition and format the drives. 

6. 

Open “My Computer” to see your external hard drive ready to 
use. 

 

Note

To enjoy USB 3.0 super speed up to 5Gbps,your computer must be 
equipped with built-in USB 3.0 ports or a USB 3.0 host PCI-e card. 
You should use the included USB DC power cable to provide extra 
power. 
 
It is not possible to add more drives to an existing RAID array 
without re-formatting it. When adding additional drivers at a later 
point, they will only be detected after the device has been restarted 
and the drivers have been re-formatted. 
 
 

 

Summary of Contents for HXDAS25

Page 1: ...2BAY RAID SYSTEM USB 3 0 MOBILE RAID Enclosure for Two 2 5 SATA Hard Drives USER MANUAL HXDAS25 www hamletcom com...

Page 2: ...ctive 2002 96 CE 2003 108 CE Italian Legislative Decree 2005 151 and EMC Directive 2004 108 EC for the following standards EN 55022 2010 EN 61000 3 2 2006 A1 2009 A2 2009 EN 61000 3 3 2008 EN 55024 20...

Page 3: ...B 1 1 Low speed 1 5Mbps Suitability 2 x 2 5 SATA HDD Supports Plug play and Hot plug Power Supply DC5V supplied by the Computer Material Aluminum OS Compatibility Windows XP Vista 7 8 Linux and Mac OS...

Page 4: ...ke sure the power is off 2 Set the RAID switch and select your preferred RAID mode There have 2 mode switch in the inner of the product it can form 4 kinds of different ways through these 2 switches i...

Page 5: ...ard disk is damaged the other piece of hard disk data would not be influenced BIG Mode JBOD Spanning In JBOD mode two hard disk will simply be bound for one the merger hard drive performance will be s...

Page 6: ...tively in two hard disk storage then the theory storage speed of hard disk is twice the one of single block hard disk The actual capacity equals to twice the smaller capacity of the one hard drive bet...

Page 7: ...the smaller capacity one storage speed is same as a single block of hard disk The advantage of RAID 1 lies that any piece of hard disk stored data losing others can not lose its weakness is the capac...

Page 8: ...he instruction below to install the hard drives 1 Take out the two screws on the rear panel 2 Pull out the inner HDD tray from the aluminum shell 3 Insert the HDDs into the 7 15P SATA connectors on th...

Page 9: ...9 4 Insert the inner HDD tray back into the aluminum housing 5 Close the rear cover The HDDs installation is now completed...

Page 10: ...PC or disk utility Mac to create a new partition and format the drives 6 Open My Computer to see your external hard drive ready to use Note To enjoy USB 3 0 super speed up to 5Gbps your computer must...

Page 11: ...RAID mode is set to RAID0 or JBOD the data will be lost and the system can not be accessed again until the drive have been replace 1 Check the HDD LED state and replace the faulty drive The power mus...

Page 12: ...is will depend on how you want to use the drive but in general we recommend Windows XP VISTA 7 NTFS Mac OS X HFS Mac OS Extended To use it on both PC and Mac FAT32 single file size is limited to 4GB H...

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