Taurus S2
Dual-Bay Storage Enclosure for
3.5” Serial ATA Hard Drives
User Manual
(English )
v1.1
April 23, 2008
EN
Page 1: ...Taurus S2 Dual Bay Storage Enclosure for 3 5 Serial ATA Hard Drives User Manual English v1 1 April 23 2008 EN...
Page 2: ...MAC REQUIREMENTS 4 PACKAGE CONTENTS 4 ABOUT DATA BACKUP 4 CHAPTER 2 HARD DRIVE ASSEMBLY 5 CHAPTER 3 SYSTEM SET UP 7 CONNECTION TO YOUR COMPUTER 7 HARD DISK MODE 7 RAID SETUP 7 NON RAID 7 BIG 7 FAST 7...
Page 3: ...rks of Microsoft Important information The T When it comes to raw dual bay Taurus Available in the classic Pleiades design the Taurus is built strong and rugged offering more than enough capacity to s...
Page 4: ...entilation holes 1 2 3 LED Indication LED HDD Status HDD1 CN2 OFF Power off or no HDD connected Green HDD connected and ready Red flashing quickly Data access or rebuilding Red and green flashing in i...
Page 5: ...ge the RAID mode first turn the selector switch and then press the Set button to confirm the new setting No Mode Explanation 0 BIG This mode is known as JBOD the two drives show up as one large single...
Page 6: ...TA Plug and Play support required for host card driver Package Contents Taurus S2 no HDD included External Power Adapter Input 100 240V Output 12V 3A 5V 4 2A Power Cord Interface Cables Manual About D...
Page 7: ...ith s identical capacitie are recommended Do not bend the thermal sensor Assembly 1 Remove the four screws at the bottom of the case Chapter 2 Hard Drive 2 Push the inner enclosure out and remove the...
Page 8: ...l the second hard drive and mount it with two screws on each side 6 Connect the SATA and power cables to your hard drives Be careful not to damage any components and confirm that the cables are connec...
Page 9: ...independent drives Use this if you have only installed one drive or two different drives not the same capacity and brand BIG The two drives show up as one large single volume This mode is also known...
Page 10: ...e with the smallest capac an exact copy or mirror of a set of data on the second drive This is useful when reliability and backup are more importan than data capacity The available capacity to the u b...
Page 11: ...RAID mode using the selector switch at the back of the enclosure If not need to change anything unless you prefer a different setup Turn on your Computer and start Windows Let Windows search and inst...
Page 12: ...back of the enclosure If the drives have been pre installed and setup already you do not need to change anything unless you prefer a different setup Turn on your computer and start Mac OS Connect the...
Page 13: ...at and right click on it for Follow the Partition Wizard to setup the drive Be aware that this will destroy all your existing data on the drive so make sure you have a backup This step is re change th...
Page 14: ...t and create partitions on your external disk Select Disk Utility in the utilities folder Choose your external drive and format it according to your requirements For Mac OS X we recommend formatting t...
Page 15: ...ed in this manual is believed to be accurate and reliable Macpower Tytech es no responsibility for any errors contained in this manual Macpower Tytech the right to make changes in the specifications a...
