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INSTALLING A PCIE CARD
1. Remove the five screws securing the chassis lid. There are
three screws to remove from the top and two screws to
remove from the back. Once removed, the lid can be slid
to the side and taken off the body.
2. Remove the screw holding the PCle slot cover. NOTE: Keep
the slot cover in case an authorized return is needed. Place
the PCle card inside the chassis. Align the PCle connector
on the card with the PCle slot of the OWC Flex 1U4. If there
is resistance, do not force the card into the slot. Remove it,
re-align the card's connector and try again.
-Be aware that installing larger cards can be difficult due
to the available maneuver room.
-Heavier cards may require a magnetic Phillips driver. The
card may need to be held up so the card and bracket align.
Using a magnetic Phillips with your other hand allows for
easier installation of the mounting screw.
3. Once the card is fully seated, reaffix the screw to the bracket
as highlighted. Place the lid back onto the chassis and secure
the five screws that were removed. Three screws secure the
top, and two screws secure the back.
2.2 FORMATTING
If you purchased the OWC Flex 1U4 with drives pre-installed, they were formatted as a RAID volume for
Mac using SoftRAID. HDD assemblies will arrive as a RAID 5 volume. SSD assemblies will arrive as a RAID 0
volume. We recommend you download the latest version of SoftRAID by visiting
support/download-latest-version/
and install the application to get the best performance. Note: The SoftRAID
serial number is on the device.
-The OWC Flex 1U4 is capable of managing and protecting your data with our advanced SoftRAID engine.
SoftRAID offers multiple RAID options (0, 1, 4, 5, 1+0), giving you the ability to set up your storage for speed,
data security or the best of both worlds. Packed with features from active predictive disk failure monitoring,
to multiple array volume spanning, SoftRAID from OWC brings technology typically found only in data
centers to your workstation or editing bay. To learn more about SoftRAID, please visit:
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