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Summary of Contents for Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS

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Page 3: ...ith Striping RAID 10 1 6 6 Disk Striping with Dedicated Parity RAID 3 1 6 6 Disk Striping with Distributed Parity RAID 5 1 6 7 Clear RAID Mode 2 SYSTEM SETUP 5 APPENDIX 6 CUSTOMER SERVICE 6 1 BEFORE C...

Page 4: ...or SAS drives 1 5Gb s 3 0Gb s or 6 0Gb s 40GB 3 0TB per HDD Drives of identical capacity model are required for RAID configurations 1 2 Package Contents OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini SAS Chapter 1 Introdu...

Page 5: ...roperly for your country 3 Connect your external mini SAS cable to your external mini SAS controller card neither are included 1 4 Rear View Cable Connections 1 5 Front View LED Indicators Each drive...

Page 6: ...based on the smallest capacity total of the drives used in the RAID set Used when speed is the primary objective but RAID Level 0 also called striping is not redundant This array splits each piece of...

Page 7: ...1 disk Very fast performance can be achieved with RAID 3 1 6 6 Disk Striping with distributed parity RAID 5 The drives show up as one volume but the total capacity depending on the drive with the smal...

Page 8: ...Slide the drive all the way into the drive bay It will fit flush with the aluminum frame 4 Repeat the previous steps for each hard drive you are installing NOTE Be careful to not damage any components...

Page 9: ...if one drive fails and your controller card s RAID mode is not set to a mode with redundancy data will be lost 1 Check the Drive LED and replace the faulty drive The red LED indicates the defective ha...

Page 10: ...tions and notes when using your external storage device Do not expose the product to water or humid conditions Do not cover the enclosure s ventilation holes Before connecting the device to your compu...

Page 11: ...d attaching the included rubber feet to the enclosure To remove the rack pulls simply remove the 4 Phillips screws on the side of the rack and the rack pull will come off Once you have removed the rac...

Page 12: ...Click on the Initialize button Select the device with no volumes attached to it in this picture that would be the 4 TB OWC device Click on the picture of the drive icon next to the text IMPORTANT NOTE...

Page 13: ...You then need to choose how many partitions you wish your OWC Mercury Rack Pro to have For ease of use we re selecting one partition here but of course you could select more if you wish to have multip...

Page 14: ...ch volume if you selected multiple partitions Click Apply to finish After a few moments partitioning will complete and the OWC Mercury Rack Pro volume will mount on your desktop You can quit Disk Util...

Page 15: ...gured solution from OWC it comes preformatted using the Mac OS HFS file system on a GUID drive partition Unfortunately this is not readable by Windows without special software If you wish to use your...

Page 16: ...and Convert Disk Wizard window should appear If the Wizard does not appear expand the Storage menu by clicking on the plus sign Then right click next to the disk number of the drive that you have jus...

Page 17: ...r right reads as Unallo cated Right click in this space and choose New Partition The New Partition Wizard will launch Click Next to continue Specify your partition type as Primary and click Next The w...

Page 18: ...stems running Windows 2000 or later it is advisable to specify the file system as NTFS Leave the Allocation unit size as Default and feel free to give the drive whatever name you prefer Be sure to che...

Page 19: ...rmatting wizard you will see that your new drive repre sented as Disk E in this case will display a message of For matting This should only take a couple of minutes if you chose the quick format op ti...

Page 20: ...isk you pop into your com puter MacDrive even puts an apple icon on the Mac disk just to keep things clear You can access files on the Mac disk just like you would with a Windows formatted disk Open f...

Page 21: ...of the hard drives 4 2 Tips To properly dismount any connected drives from your computer you need to follow a few simple steps For Macintosh systems There are two methods to umount disks with Macinto...

Page 22: ...e data being lost For RAID 1 RAID 3 RAID 5 and RAID 10 the failure of two or more hard drives at the same time will mean that data cannot be recovered Q Will the hard drives spin down when my computer...

Page 23: ...operating system you are using Which kind and model of computer you are using All of this will help speed your support contact along 8AM 10PM CST Monday Friday 9AM 4PM CST Saturday By Telephone 800 2...

Page 24: ...receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected Health And Safety Precautions Use proper anti static precautions while performing the i...

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