Instruction Manual
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Operating Modes
Single Mode (Non-RAID)
In Single Mode, the installed drives
will appear individually as two
independent drives. This function can
be used if only one hard drive is
installed, or two different brands or
capacities of drive are being used.
RAID 0 - Spanning Mode
In Spanning Mode, two hard drives
will appear as a single, large drive.
Spanning is an array that is written
sequentially across two drives.
RAID 0 - Striping Mode
To operate in Mirroring Mode,
two
identical hard drives (capacity,
brand and model number) must be
used
. In Striping Mode, two hard
drives will appear as one large, single
drive, but will provide faster data
transfers, as data will be written to the
drives in a “column” effect. This form
of array splits each piece of data
across both drives in segments. This
form of RAID does not provide
redundancy or data checking.
RAID 1 - Mirroring Mode
To operate in Mirroring Mode,
two
identical hard drives (capacity,
brand and model number) must be
used
.
This mode creates an extra
copy (or mirrored set) of the data from
drive one on the second drive.
Mirroring Mode provides data
redundancy that is useful in the event
that the primary hard drive fails,
allowing an instant replacement of
damaged data with the second set.
Please note:
If RAID 1 mode is in effect, and you wish to change to single or
RAID 0 modes, please use the
RIB Clean
utility to clean the drives partition
table, located on the StarTech.com website, in the
Downloads
section. For
more information, please see the section titled
Using the RIB Clean Utility
.