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FANTEC
MR-35HDC
HARD DISK
COPYSTATION

USER MANUAL

Red=RAID

Blue=Dup 

POWER

Copy

Compare

Prescan

Erase

RAID0

RAID1

BIG

JBOG

Start

Mute

Reset

RAID

DUP

Summary of Contents for MR-35HDC

Page 1: ...FANTEC MR 35HDC HARD DISK COPYSTATION USER MANUAL Red RAID Blue Dup POWER Copy Compare Prescan Erase RAID0 RAID1 BIG JBOG Start Mute Reset RAID DUP ...

Page 2: ...peration and mode switch to Copy 3 Connect the power cord 4 Push down the Power button 5 The front panel will display Power LED On Blue Operation LED On Blue 6 The unit will detect HDD automatically and HDD status LED will red twinkle during this time After the detection has finished the HDD status LED will become blue and mode LED will stay in green color The modes LED flashes according to your s...

Page 3: ... will stay green This mode enables a bad sector scan of HDD2 Source HDD If the sectors are ok it will beep 6 times and the Prescan LED will stay green This mode deletes partition information of HDD1 slot1 After the task has finished it will beep 6 times and the Erase LED will stay green T C E F F E T N E V E No HDD detected or HDD failed HDD Status LED will send red light t h g i l e u l b d n e s...

Page 4: ... time 2sec c Push down the Mute button to end the buzzer beep When the unit works in RAID1 mode and one of the HDDs was replaced due to a damage or exchange please press the Start button until it beeps two times in order to activate the rebuild of the RAID1 system After the rebuild has finished it will beep again for one time The rebuild will be executed from slot 1 to slot 2 if HDD in slot 2 was ...

Page 5: ...detection has finished the HDD status LED will become purple and function LED will twinkle in green 8 Press the Start button for more than 2 seconds and a buzzer will beep for two times Now the system will start to change the mode 19 4 Connect to the computer host through USB turn on the power and press the Start button Instruction will be presented in the following graph Turn the switch to RAID0 ...

Page 6: ...ifferent HDD The material transmission completes when LED sends blue light HDD1 and HDD2 LED glitter in turn with blue red lights Self checking completes when LED sends blue light HDD1 and HDD2 LED glitter in turn with blue red lights Self checking completes when LED sends blue light PATTERN HDD carries on the self checking RAID0 Material transmission Under the material transmission condition The ...

Page 7: ...t have increased in size while preserving all of your existing data After you have added more hard disk drives to increase the storage capacity of a BIG volume you must use the supplemental procedure described below to allow the expanded capacity to be recognized by the Windows file system A command line utility named Disk part exe Disk Partition enables you to manage hard disk partitions and volu...

Page 8: ... Port 1 and pressing the Mode Change push button The new disk blocks of Port 1 will be concatenated to the end of the disk blocks of Port 0 and any data that is stored on the existing BIG volume will be preserved However it is not possible to expand an existing BIG volume by adding another hard disk drive to Port 0 and still preserve any existing data on that volume The JBOD Just a Bunch of Disks ...

Page 9: ... hard drives such as speed storage capacity or data storage reliability The BIG storage policy concatenates a series of physical hard drives as a single large volume resulting in a seamless expansion of virtual volumes beyond the physical limitations of singularly connected hard drives The BIG storage policy delivers maximum storage space without a single large capacity and costly hard drive Hard ...

Page 10: ...ty mounts the created partition and represents it with an icon on the desktop The icon is labeled with the partition name 1 If this product is in use for the first time or the mode is changed we must initialize and format the HDD before All information will be eliminated when format hard drives 2 When you need to change different mode BIG JBOD RAID0 FAST RAID1 SAFE you must press the RESET START b...

Page 11: ...onnected to the unit BIG 3 Select 1 from the drop down list 4 Enter a name for the volume in the field such as My BIG disk Partition Volume Scheme Name 13 2 1 5 Partitioning Volumes Partition a Volume MS Windows Important Not Initialized My Computer Manage This section explains how to partition volumes after configuring them in the GUI You must partition volumes for the host computer s operating s...

Page 12: ...ox appears allowing you to select which disks to initialize Uncheck the SteelVine Processor Disk item and click Within a few seconds the selected disk s should be marked as a disk 3 Right click the configured disk s unallocated space and select If the New Partition option is not available select the disk and initialize it first To do this right click on the disk item and select Basic Online Unknow...

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