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Manual

5-BAY

 

RAID STATION

Summary of Contents for 5-BAY RAID BOX

Page 1: ...Manual 5 BAY RAID STATION...

Page 2: ...Changing the host connection 11 7 3 Disconnecting an USB device 11 7 4 HDD HotPlug 11 8 Setting the RAID mode 11 8 1 CLEAN mode 12 8 2 CLONE mode with HotSpare 13 8 3 R1 mode with HotSpare 16 8 4 R10...

Page 3: ...lone and RAID 1 3 5 10 mode Supports HDD roaming Internal interfaces SATA I and II compatible with SATA III External interfaces eSATA and USB3 0 Fast Swap mechanism for easy HDD handling Premium quali...

Page 4: ...H Weight 4 kg 250 W full range power supply 3 System requirements Intel Pentium III 500 MHz equivalent or faster Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 with the latest Service Packs 64 MB of RAM minimum S...

Page 5: ...5 bay raid station 5 4 1 Rear panel 4 2The LED indications...

Page 6: ...Off Off HDD Plugged Idle On Off HDD Plugged Active Blink On Off Error State one or more bad partial volumes Off On HDD Rebuild a physical partition is being rebuild e g Mirroring Mode Off Blink On 4...

Page 7: ...ounting screws for 2 5 HDDs SSDs 20x mounting screws for 3 5 HDDs 1x SATA to eSATA cable with bracket 6 Getting started 6 1 HDD installation 1 Open the front door then unlock the HDD mounting frame lo...

Page 8: ...the mounting screws to securely attach the HDD to the mounting frame fig 3 Fig 3 4 Slide the HDD mounting frame back into the 5 BAY RAID STATION fig 4 Fig 4 5 Close the front door to complete the HDD...

Page 9: ...ower on off Press the power button to switch on the device Press again to power it off 6 3 eSATA slot bracket installation 1 Remove the anchor screw of the slot bezel and take it from the rear side of...

Page 10: ...iplier PM support Note If you use a host controller that does not provide Port Multiplier support such as Intel ICH the CLEAN mode is not available when configuring the 5 BAY RAID STATION Only one dis...

Page 11: ...Before you shut down your PC remove the 5 Bay RAID Station from your system s hardware configuration by double clicking the symbol in the task bar A menu will open up Select the 5 Bay RAID Station to...

Page 12: ...de The CLEAN mode requires a minimum of one HDD 1 Switch off the device fig 8 Fig 8 2 Toggle the RAID mode switches to the desired RAID mode according to the following chart fig 9 Fig 9 3 Press and ho...

Page 13: ...tup button to complete the RAID mode setting fig 11 Fig 11 8 2 CLONE mode with HotSpare The CLONE mode with HotSpare drive requires a minimum of three drives to implement 1 Switch off the device fig 1...

Page 14: ...5 bay raid station 14 3 Toggle the RAID mode switches to CLONE fig 14 Fig 14 4 Press and hold the setup button fig 15 Fig 15 5 Switch on the device and then release the setup button fig 16 Fig 16...

Page 15: ...5 bay raid station 15 6 Switch off the device fig 17 Fig 17 7 Insert the HotSpare drive into the third HDD bay fig 18 Fig 18 8 Switch on the device to complete the RAID mode setting fig 19 Fig 19...

Page 16: ...bay raid station 16 8 3 R1 mode with HotSpare 1 Switch off the device fig 20 Fig 20 2 Insert three HDDs into the topmost drive bays fig 21 Fig 21 3 Toggle the RAID mode switches to R1 R10 fig 22 Fig 2...

Page 17: ...5 bay raid station 17 4 Press and hold the setup button fig 23 Fig 23 5 Switch on the device and then release the setup button to complete the RAID mode setting fig 24 Fig 24...

Page 18: ...5 bay raid station 18 8 4 R10 mode with HotSpare 1 Switch off the device fig 25 Fig 25 2 Insert five HDDs into the drive bays fig 26 Fig 26 3 Toggle the RAID mode switches to R1 R10 fig 27 Fig 27...

Page 19: ...5 bay raid station 19 4 Press and hold the setup button fig 28 Fig 28 5 Switch on the power and then release the setup button to complete the RAID mode setting fig 29 Fig 29...

Page 20: ...HotSpare The R3 mode with HotSpare HDD requires a minimum of four drives to implement 1 Switch off the device fig 30 Fig 30 2 Insert three drives into the topmost drive bays fig 31 Fig 31 3 Toggle the...

Page 21: ...5 bay raid station 21 4 Press and hold the setup button fig 33 Fig 33 5 Switch on the device and then release the setup button fig 34 Fig 34 6 Switch off the device fig 35 Fig 35...

Page 22: ...5 bay raid station 22 7 Insert the hot spare HDD into the 4th HDD bay fig 36 Fig 36 8 Switch on the device to complete the RAID mode setting fig 37 Fig 37...

Page 23: ...HotSpare The R5 mode with HotSpare HDD requires a minimum of four drives to implement 1 Switch off the device fig 38 Fig 38 2 Insert three drives into the topmost drive bays fig 39 Fig 39 3 Toggle the...

Page 24: ...5 bay raid station 24 4 Press and hold the setup button fig 41 Fig 41 5 Switch on the device and then release the setup button fig 42 Fig 42 6 Switch off the device fig 43 Fig 43...

Page 25: ...the RAID mode setting fig 45 Fig 45 9 Rebuilding a redundant or HotSpare drive The 5 BAY RAID STATION duplicates all data to separate drives in order to protect against data loss due to drive failure...

Page 26: ...ebuilding a redundant drive 1 If drive 2 fails please remove it from the device fig 46 Fig 46 2 Switch off the device fig 47 Fig 47 3 Replace the defective HDD with a hard disk drive of the same capac...

Page 27: ...ally rebuild speed approximately 200 GB hour 9 2 Rebuilding a HotSpare drive 1 If there is a HotSpare drive inserted into drive bay 5 and the drive 2 fails the HotSpare drive 5 will replace the broken...

Page 28: ...vice fig 51 Fig 51 3 Replace the defective HDD with a hard disk drive of the same capacity or bigger fig 52 Fig 52 4 Switch on the device fig 53 Fig 53 5 The 5 BAY RAID STATION will replace the HotSpa...

Page 29: ...e is connected via the USB2 0 interface the speed will be around 30 MB sec only 4 When formatting under Windows XP Vista 7 the dialog box Unfinished formatting is displayed Windows XP Vista 7 cannot f...

Page 30: ...ction The LARGE mode concatenates a series of physical hard drives into a single large volume creating a seamless expansion of virtual volumes beyond the physical limitations of singularly connected h...

Page 31: ...estore the data During this procedure the LED indications will notify you that a rebuild is in progress Notes Although the volume remains available during the rebuild process the volume is susceptible...

Page 32: ...rtual volume that is striped across all hard drives with a storage capacity that is five times the capacity of the smallest drive 11 5 R1 mode Function In R1 mode all data is duplicated on separate dr...

Page 33: ...implementation of R10 requires four drives The drives are assigned as two sets of striped pairs The data is written to the R1 set and provides data redundancy Alternating blocks of data are then stri...

Page 34: ...te operations The parity calculations for R3 mode may result in write performance that is somewhat slower than the write performance to a single drive The resulting storage capacity of the virtual R3...

Page 35: ...nd is the preferred method to reduce the cost per megabyte for larger installations In exchange for low overhead necessary to implement protection the R5 mode degrades performance for all write operat...

Page 36: ...mage to the remaining drive until redundancy is restored at the end of the rebuild and verification process Host access takes precedence over the rebuild process If you continue to use the virtual R5...

Page 37: ...tion All rights reserved especially in case of assignation of patent or utility patent Means of deli very and technical modifications reserved Disposal of your old product Your product is designed and...

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