EliteRAID ER104CT User Guide
Chapter 1 - Introduction / Page 2
1.4 Detailed View
1.4.1 LED
Indication
LED
Status
Power
x
OFF = Power off
x
Blue = Power on
Rebuild
x
Blinking orange = Rebuilding RAID array
x
Steady orange = One or more faulty drive(s)
HDD
x
Blinking green = Data access (read/write)
x
Blinking red = System starting up
x
Steady red = Error or HDD is not installed
1.4.2 RAID Selector Switch
Switch Position
Function
0
Not in use (software setting)
1 (SPAN)
Spanning with 2 hard drives
2 (SPAN)
Spanning with 4 hard drives
3 (RAID 0)
RAID 0 Striping with 2 hard drives
4 (RAID 0)
RAID 0 Striping with 4 hard drives
5 (RAID 1)
RAID 1 Mirroring with 2 hard drives
6 (RAID 10)
Mir Striping with 4 hard drives
7 (RAID 5)
RAID 5 with 3 hard drives
8 (RAID 5)
RAID 5 with 4 hard drives
9 (RAID 5)
RAID 5 with 3 hard 1 spare
Note: Hard drives of identical capacities are recommended.
When only 2 or 3 hard
drives are installed, the
red LED indication for
the missing hard drives
can be safely ignored.
Changing the RAID
mode will require you to
re-format the drives.
Make sure to backup all
data before doing so!
