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Are you sure? Click Erase.

1 pair of drives down, 1 more pair to go. Repeat on the 2nd set

and you’re all done!

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Double click on Computer Management.

Click on Disk Management under the Storage subcategory.

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Open Administrative Tools.

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Summary of Contents for Mercury Rack Pro 4 Bay Storage Enclosure

Page 1: ...different from that to which the receiver is connected Health And Safety Precautions Use proper anti static precautions while performing the installation of your hard drives into this drive enclosure...

Page 2: ...nclosures 8 How to NOT hook up your enclosure what NOT to do 9 Chapter 5 Using with a Macintosh 10 Setting up as JBOD 4 individual hard drives 11 Setting up as RAID 0 2 hard drives striped for perform...

Page 3: ...shooting Try and confirm the problem is with the hard drive If you have a sec ond Macintosh computer move the drive to that system and verify that the drive does not function with that machine Visit o...

Page 4: ...n the desktop or in the dock using Mac OS X Your drive is now safe to power off and unhook Realize that you have up to 4 drives to dismount with this 4 bay unit make sure all drives are disconnected b...

Page 5: ...S Requirements Mac Compatible with all Apple OS Versions 8 5 through 9 2 x Apple OS X 10 0 3 and higher including OS X Leopard 10 5 x Windows Compatible with Microsoft Windows 98SE ME 2000 XP Any OS o...

Page 6: ...owing pages you will see the different methods used to connect the drive solu tion to your computer Cable Connections Chapter 4 Drive Icons Now that you have your new OWC Mercury Elite Rack Pro config...

Page 7: ...on 3 Connect to separate FireWire 800 interfaces such as a built in FireWire 800 port AND a PCI PCIe FireWire 800 card Use the 2 included cables to connect one cable to each of these inter faces doubl...

Page 8: ...ows you to maximize the performance of the storage solution even though you do not have two identical interfaces Check Perform a quick format and choose which file system you want to use NTFS is defau...

Page 9: ...a transfer speeds but it is possible to connect multiple units together in the described method The maximum volume size will automatically be prompted in the box at the bottom If you wish to adjust th...

Page 10: ...damage to the unit can occur You also cannot hook both the FireWire 800 and USB 2 0 connection to the computer on the same bridge card Once again data loss and damage to the computer can occur You wil...

Page 11: ...your desktop RAID 0 1 This method is a bit different than the above two methods as it uses a piece of software that is included with this bundle SoftRAID SoftRAID combines two Stripe RAID 0 volumes in...

Page 12: ...mes mount on your desktop Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Click on the start button and then Control Panel Step 3 Stripe RAID 0 Two volumes will mount on your desktop each made up of a high speed RAID 0 Stripe c...

Page 13: ...volumes listed Click on the first hard drive in the list that has no volume as shown above Step 4 Step 5 You will see the drive begin to format This will take up to 5 minutes to complete The format h...

Page 14: ...nue naming and formatting each of your drives You re all set Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Check Perform a quick format and choose which file system you want to use NTFS is default and recommended Click Next w...

Page 15: ...itches to the right of the USB port Make sure they are both on the RAID 0 position RIGHT Choose the connection method you desire USB FireWire 800 and power on the OWC Mercury Rack Pro enclosure You wi...

Page 16: ...l unformatted with no volumes listed Click on the first hard drive in the list that has no volume as shown above Step 4 Step 5 You will see the above box appear in the middle of the screen Right click...

Page 17: ...ase 1 pair of drives down 1 more pair to go Repeat on the 2nd set and you re all done Step 7 Step 6 Double click on Computer Management Click on Disk Management under the Storage subcategory Step 5 St...

Page 18: ...esktop Your solution should be configured properly to work the way that you ordered it right out of the box However if you decide you want to reconfigure or change the method you ordered please see th...