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EN-CAHDD2B-D

Dual-Bay USB 2.0 RAID Dock

Instruction Manual

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may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be 

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Summary of Contents for EN-CAHDD2B-D

Page 1: ...r TB equals one trillion bytes Your computer s operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity In addition some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions and thus will not be available for data storage Actual quantities will vary based on various factors including file size file format features and application software Cavalry reserv...

Page 2: ...n of Dock Settings 2 Your Disk Management Utility 3 Chapter 2 installation guide 3 Installation Outline 3 Installation Step 1 4 Installation Step 2 JBOD 4 Installation Step 2 RAID 1 5 Installation Step 2 RAID 0 6 Installation Step 2 Spanning 6 InitializationStep3 7 chapter 3 support 8 HDD LED Status Codes 8 Troubleshooting 8 Warranty Information 9 Contact Information 9 ...

Page 3: ...hose disks to work For system builders who can t afford down time caused by faulty OS drives the ultra simple RAID 1 disk duplication feature allows you to make complete duplicate disks without connecting to your computer The hot swappable dock design allows you to cycle through as many disks as you like in mere seconds all without restarting your PC or Mac Model Interfaces Power Supply Configurat...

Page 4: ...catch is that your storage capacity is limited to that of the source drive You will also need to verify that each disk you intend to use in this array is the exact same make and model RAID 1 Mode Mirrored Drives This is only recommended for those people who absolutely must have the absolute maximum in transfer speed and storage capacity This mode is easily capable of exceeding the speed limit of U...

Page 5: ...elect Disk Management Mac Click an empty space on your Desktop Then select from the top of the screen Go Utilities Disk Utility Seeing Your New Disk in the Disk Management Utility In Mac this is a pretty straight forward affair Just look at the left hand column and search for a newly added disk with the term DMI or USB in it s title Windows arbitrarily assigns a Disk Number to every new disk that ...

Page 6: ...ard drives from the dock while it is on may result in data loss With the dock powered off set the RAID Mode selector switches to JBOD mode shown in the image on the right Turn the dock on Proceed to one of the next two steps depending on whether your disks already have data on them Installing Disks with existing data If you re installing a disk with data already on it look for your drive directly ...

Page 7: ...sk management utility This is the source disk Now with the dock still on you can insert the blank or unallocated disk into the empty slot The second disk to be inserted automatically becomes the destination or mirror disk Wait an hour or more depending on the size of your drives for the destination drive to finish automatically copying all of the data from the source drive After that time has elap...

Page 8: ...h disk appears as a separate blank or Unallocated volume within your disk management utility they should be ready to create an array 1 2 3 Only blank or unallocated disks can be used to setup a Spanning BIG array Power the dock off Both disks should still be in the dock from your JBOD test Set the switches to BIG See the picture to the right Power on the dock Check for 1 unallocated disk in your d...

Page 9: ...Windows select a drive letter as well as the rest of the options Then press Finish Double check that Windows assigned a drive letter to your new drive s Otherwise you will not see the drive s in My Computer Now look for your drive letter s in My Computer and enjoy your new drive Mac OS X 10 4 0 Look for the drive in Disk Utility Click an empty space on your Desktop Then select from the top of the ...

Page 10: ...Select Change Drive Letter or Path Take note of the assigned drive letter and look for that letter in My Computer I see my drive but it s Offline Just right click the disk number and select Online My drive doesn t seem to fit This is probably because you are using an obsolete IDE drive Our authorized parts retailer sells an enclosure made especially for IDE Please email us at customersupport caval...

Page 11: ... Cavalry Storage is not responsible for any defects in products loss or inaccuracy of data of any kind or for any direct indirect incidental or consequential damages resulting there from Packing and Shipping Any product sent to Cavalry Storage Inc for service or repair must be packed and shipped according to the Cavalry Storage standards and guidelines Please note that packages received which devi...

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