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iR8624-S3 User Manual
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6. Computer Set Up
When the hardware setup for IR8624-S3 is complete, you are now ready to turn the machine on.
After the hardware installation is complete, the IR8624-S3 will be treated as one single hard drive.
Set the hard drive to AUTO in the computer’s BIOS. When the computer is turned on, the system will
retrieve the following information:
1. In IR8624-S3, the installed hard drive can be detected by the Device Manager of Computer
Management for Windows.
2. Customers can choose to format the hard drive by using the Disk Management tool of the
operating system before using the IR8624-S3.
At this point, the installation process is completely finished. The user can freely retrieve and save
data to IR8624-S3 just like retrieving and saving data to a regular hard drive. If the user experiences
any abnormality during the operation, please refer to the trouble shooting Q&A section in Appendix.
2). Under RAID 1 mode, two hard drives has the identical information as one to mirror to the other
one, therefore each of the hard drive failed is still able to function normally. When you replace
the failed hard disk to the new one the system automatically rebuilding the data to the newly
place hard disk.
2. RAID 0 Mode
1). Place two new hard drives into IR8624-S3 and strongly suggest you to use two identical hard
drives to get the equal capacity. If the capacity is different, IR8624-S3 is downward to the small
hard drive capacity.
2). Under RAID 0 mode, capacity is add up to a one big volume, also with the feature of faster
read/write performance efficient.