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External enclosure Installation

 [ R2-JBOD ]                                                                                                                                                                User Manual 

 

 

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BIG:  

It concatenates a series of physical hard drives as a single large 

volume; hard drive A and B are combined into a storage capacity 

that is equal to the sum of each of the physical hard drives A and B.   

It is also possible to create a BIG volume using only a single hard 

disk drive connected to SATA connector 1, and then increase the 

storage capacity of the volume later by adding another hard disk 

drive to SATA connector 2, and pressing reset button. However, it 

is not possible to expand an existing BIG volume by adding 

another hard disk drive to SATA connector 2 and still preserve any 

existing data on that volume. 

BIG Mode:

 

 

 

 

Содержание R2-JBOD

Страница 1: ...anual Include Hardware Installation Guide HDD Formatting Guide Thank you for purchasing a quality Rosewill Product Please register your product at www rosewill com for complete warranty information an...

Страница 2: ...R2 JBOD User Manual 1 Hardware Installation Guide z Please follow the instructions and make sure your hard drive is successfully installed to the external enclosure STEP1 Release the 4 screws then pu...

Страница 3: ...JBOD User Manual 2 STEP2 Place the first HDD into the tray Push the HDD to connect e SATA connector th STEP3 Place the second HDD into the tray Push the HDD to connect the SATA connector Note Make sur...

Страница 4: ...External enclosure Installation R2 JBOD User Manual 3 STEP4 Screw the HDD on the tray both sides STEP5 Push the tray into the aluminum case Screw the rear panel and enclosure together...

Страница 5: ...atting Guide This device can support JBOD BIG Mode JBOD It enables each hard drive to be seen separately as single drives showing 2 HDD capacities Note Backup before formatting your HDD JBOD Mode STEP...

Страница 6: ...External enclosure Installation R2 JBOD User Manual 5 STEP2 Select Disk Management and you will see your hard drives show Unallocated Sample 750GB 250GB hard drives STEP3 Please refer to page 9...

Страница 7: ...d drives A and B It is also possible to create a BIG volume using only a single hard disk drive connected to SATA connector 1 and then increase the storage capacity of the volume later by adding anoth...

Страница 8: ...closure Installation R2 JBOD User Manual 7 STEP1 Right click My Computer icon and select the Manage column STEP2 Two brand new HDD Select Disk Management and you will see your External HDD shows Not I...

Страница 9: ...se two HDDs have to be combined into one disk Select Disk Management and you will see your External HDD only shows one HDD another shows Unallocated Right click the red squared block and select Delete...

Страница 10: ...External enclosure Installation R2 JBOD User Manual 9 STEP3 Right click the red squared block and select Initialize Disk STEP4 Press OK button to initialize HDD...

Страница 11: ...BOD User Manual 10 STEP5 The external HDD will be showed Online Right click the Unallocated block and select New Partition STEP6 The New Partition Wizard will appear Please follow the instruction of t...

Страница 12: ...anual 11 STEP7 When new partition is completed the external HDD will be recognized as a New Volume If you divided HDD into two partitions format two partitions separately After two partitions are form...

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