
User Manual Digital Shredder
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SHREDDER
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Inserting a Drive
Warning:
Be sure your Digital Shredder is powered ON before inserting drives for processing. Unpredictable behavior may result if this
procedure is not followed.
Drives are attached to Personality Blocks which are in turn inserted into Drive Bays. Your Digital Shredder shipment includes
three Personality Blocks. Personality Blocks are NOT universal in application with hard drives. Due to a lack of manufactur-
ing standards concerning hard drives there are variations in the backplane of different drives. Each Personality Block has an
indicator on the front of it, describing the family of drives it serves. For example, the block ATA 1.3.5 is the
fi
rst ATA block and
is designed to
fi
t 3.5” drives from certain manufacturers who have created drives with that particular backplane. The ATA
1.2.5 block is the
fi
rst ATA block for 2.5” drives and so on.
Hardware Compatibility List:
ATA / IDE - 3,5“
Manufacturer
Support
Personality Block
Western Digital
Yes
ATA 2.3.5
Maxtor
Yes
ATA 3.3.5/ ATA 1.3.5
Seagate
Yes
ATA 1.3.5
Hitachi
Yes
ATA 1.3.5
IBM
Yes
ATA 1.3.5
Quantum
Yes
ATA 1.3.5
Fujitsu
Yes
ATA 1.3.5
ATA / IDE - 2,5“
Manufacturer
Support
Personality Block
AII
Yes
ATA 1.2.5
SATA - 3,5“ and 2,5“
Manufacturer
Support
Personality Block
AII
Yes
SATA
Check the status of the Personality Block before removing it. If the LED is OFF the block is safe to remove. If the light is
GREEN or blinking GREEN the bay is safe to open but may still be locked in which case you should select the “EJECT” option
on the Bay Screen to unlock the bay (see Figure 10).
To remove the Personality Block from the Drive Bay simply raise the lever on the face of the Personality Block and gently pull
it toward you. Remove the block completely from the bay. Now taking your drive in one hand and the block in the other, gently
align the two devices. If the alignment is correct, gently ease the drive on to the Personality Block connector. If it appears
that the alignment is not correct, do NOT force the connection as it is likely that the drive you are trying to erase requires a
different Personality Block.