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Page 2: ...d enables a new class of multi media streaming and acceleration using ordinary Serial ATA disk drives The S CURE card uses a completely driverless design so that it can natively operate within standard Windows XP 2000 2003 environments The S CURE card s striped parity RAID 3 mode provides the highest performance protected RAID mode in the industry providing RAID 0 performance with RAID 5 class par...

Page 3: ...s process may take longer depending on other peripherals installed i Open the PC case following the appropriate guidelines provided by your PC or PC case vendor ii Ensure that there is adequate cooling and power for your hard drives A drive cage with additional cooling fans is recommended iii Plug the S CURE card into an available PCI slot and secure the card bracket to the PC case iv Connect the ...

Page 4: ...ed Step 2 Auto Configuration After you attach the hard drives and first power up the computer The Storage BIOS will automatically recognize the data drive and configure it so it can be used PNY 5 Step 2 Install Storage Manager Insert the Installation CD into your CD tray The installer should auto launch Follow the prompts to install the Storage Manager The installer will then prompt you to restart...

Page 5: ...ance striping only Risk of data loss increases linearly with the number of drives striped The user sees 100 of the sum of all the drive capacities added together RAID 1 Used to protect a single drive by copying all data simultaneously to a mirror drive The user sees only the capacity of one drive RAID 3 Used to protect a performance stripe from drive failure Adding an additional drive of equivalen...

Page 6: ...t will see a large single 400 Gigabyte drive two for data and one for protection the latter being invisible to the user Each RAID 3 drive will be mapped by the host as single disk number e g Disk 0 Disk 1 Supported RAID Configurations 9 PNY Storage Manager The PNY Storage Manager application provides a convenient and easy to use Windows interface that supports monitoring status checking creation d...

Page 7: ...mply select individual un configured drives drives marked with a yellow exclamation sign using a left mouse click while holding the CTRL key If all drives are being assigned to a single array simply select the top drive and while holding the SHIFT key select the bottom drive which results in all the drives being selected The types of RAID modes available with the selected drives will become highli...

Page 8: ...grate dialogue At the bottom of the window there is a box for Partition Stretching Options If you select Automatically expand partition the PNY Storage Manager will stretch the last logical disk on the array to include your new space If this option is available we recommend you press yes If this option is not available or you choose not to use it you will need to go to the windows Disk Manager to ...

Page 9: ...utility one of the drives will have an by it 3 When the PNY Storage Manager application is running a A pop up window will indicate a drive failure b If the email notification is enabled in Management menu An email will be issued indicating the failure c One of the drives will have a red X through it 15 To replace and rebuild a failed drive perform the following steps 1 Determine which array and dr...

Page 10: ...ant to delay the rebuild for a while The pause button changes to a Resume button to restart the process b Abort aborts the rebuild process and resets back to the unprotected failed drive state for restart or total reconfiguration 17 c Priority slider dictates the level of priority the S CURE Data Protection card gives to the rebuild The slider bar may be dragged by clicking on it with the mouse an...

Page 11: ...is does not affect the capability of the array to continue functioning when a single drive fails 19 Updating Your Firmware The PNY Storage Manager includes a utility that will automatically check for updates to your storage processing card firmware when you first install it You can also download update packages manually from the website at www S CURE com support html Please follow the directions t...

Page 12: ... After you create the array save the configuration using option 5 Deleting an Array option 2 Use this option to delete arrays previously configured The drives will be freed up and will appear as U or un configured in the top part of the menu Interrupt 13 option 3 INT13 enable disable turns off the part of the BIOS that registers the arrays as bootable with the operating system This can resolve som...

Page 13: ...hen configure the S CURE card and drives with these removed first If none of the arrays on the S CURE card are being used as boot devices You can disable the Int 13 option in the S CURE card BIOS to free system resources As a last resort try disabling the BIOS altogether using the Disable BIOS option in the BIOS level N configuration utility iii If there are multiple S CURE card s in the system an...

Page 14: ...CD Rom 3 Hard Drive The Hard Drive Priority if it is available on your motherboard is a subcategory normally located near to the Boot Order that allows you to list the primary bootable hard drive Generally if the Boot Order function on a motherboard lists more than one hard drive available than it will not have a Hard Drive Priority function Because every motherboard BIOS is unique you should refe...

Page 15: ...hipping costs when shipping from outside the United States this will include freight duty customs fees and taxes LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY IN NO EVENT SHALL PNY BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT SPECIAL INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ITS PERFORMANCE OR FAIL URE TO PERFORM UNDER THIS WARRANTY STATEMENT WHETHER DUE TO BREACH OF CONTRACT BREACH OF WARRANTY NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE REGARDLE...

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