Hydra Super-S Combo Introduction
1.5 Detailed View
1.5.1 LED Indication & Buttons
LED/Button
Status
Blue = Power on
Big
Yellow = BIG mode active (SPAN)
Fast
Amber = FAST mode active (RAID 0)
Safe
Green = SAFE mode active (RAID 1)
Fast & Safe
Green & Amber = RAID 5 or RAID 10
Blinking orange = Rebuilding RAID array
Steady orange = One or more faulty drive(s)
Blinking green = Accessing data
Press to temporarily mute the buzzer sound
HDD A-D
Blinking red = System starting up
Steady red = Error or HDD is not installed
When only 2 or 3 hard
drives are installed, the
red LED indication for the
missing hard drives can
be safely ignored.
1.5.2 RAID Selector Switch
Switch Position
Function
0
Not in use (software setting)
1 (SPAN)
Spanning with 2 hard drives
2 (SPAN)
Spanning with 4 hard drives
3 (RAID 0)
RAID 0 Striping with 2 hard drives
4 (RAID 0)
RAID 0 Striping with 4 hard drives
5 (RAID 1)
RAID 1 Mirroring with 2 hard drives
6 (RAID 10)
Mir Striping with 4 hard drives
7 (RAID 5)
RAID 5 with 3 hard drives
8 (RAID 5)
RAID 5 with 4 hard drives
9 (RAID 5)
RAID 5 with 3 hard 1 spare
Changing the RAID mode
will require you to re-
format the drives. Make
sure to backup all
existing data first!
Note
Hard drives with identical capacities are recommended.
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