Fantec MR-35VU3R, User Manual

Page 1: ...FANTEC MR 35VU3R USER MANUAL ...

Page 2: ...2 BIG Modus 7 2 1 3 RAID0 8 2 1 4 RAID1 9 2 1 5 Partitioning Volumes 10 3 Note 14 4 Features 15 4 1 High speed external storage solution 15 4 2 Serial ATA HDD 15 4 3 4 Working Modes BIG JBOD RAID0 RAID1 15 4 4 Supported Systems 18 4 4 1 System Expansion for Windows Overview 18 5 Package contens 19 ...

Page 3: ...2 1 Product Introduction SATA 2x HDD RAID to USB 3 0 5 0G interface Front Back ...

Page 4: ...lock to open pull the doorknob and insert half of the hard disk into the dock slot Close the door and the hard disk will slide into the slot Installation is complete Unlock the door Pull the front door Insert HDD Close the door Note Unlocked Locked ...

Page 5: ...cement the device will automatically carry out the rebuild operation When the HDD is damaged the Power LED turn off and the HDD LED is constant blue After replacing the damaged HDD the rebuild begins and both HDD LED start flashing simultaneously After a successful rebuild both HDD LED turn off 3 Standby Mode After 5 minutes of no use the device goes into Standby Mode All LED are turned off during...

Page 6: ...tart flashing blue Self checking completes when HDD LED shows no light During Data transmission The HDD1 LED is flashing blue till the HDD is full then HDD 2 LED is start flashing The Data transmission completes when LED shows no light After power on and insertion of one or two HD the following LED states appear after a HD failure In this example HDD1 is normal and HDD2 is damaged otherwise vice v...

Page 7: ...s the Reset button for a few seconds the computer will automatically recognize the USB device and two new drives should appear If no new drive shows up you have to initialize and or format the disks in the Disk Management Attention after formatting all data will be erased Right click on My Computer click Manage the Computer Management should appear where you choose Disk Management You should find ...

Page 8: ... the computer will automatically recognize the USB device Right click on My Computer click Manage the Computer Management should appear where you choose Disk Management You should find the new disks flagged as Unknown and Unallocated Right click the Unknown disk and select Initialize Disk now you can format the disk by right clicking the Unallocated Disk and choose New Partition or Add New Volume ...

Page 9: ...the computer will automatically recognize the USB device Right click on My Computer click Manage the Computer Management should appear where you choose Disk Management You should find the new disks flagged as Unknown and Unallocated Right click the Unknown disk and select Initialize Disk now you can format the disk by right clicking the Unallocated Disk and choose New Partition or Add New Volume ...

Page 10: ...e computer will automatically recognize the USB device Right click on My Computer click Manage the Computer Management should appear where you choose Disk Management You should find only one new disks flagged as Unknown and Unallocated Right click the Unknown disk and select Initialize Disk now you can format the disk by right clicking the Unallocated Disk and choose New Partition or Add New Volum...

Page 11: ... guidance Partitioning a hard drive MS Windows Important Before reconfiguring a volume back up your data and delete previously defined partitions If no hard disk drives are connected to the device the disks appear as Not Initialized with no capacity allocated to it Do not initialize or modify that device 1 Right click the My Computer icon on your desktop and select Manage from the pop up window 2 ...

Page 12: ... select Revert to Basic Disk Within a few seconds the disk should be marked as a Basic disk If a disk is marked Not Initialized right click the disk icon and select Initialize Disk An additional dialog box appears allowing you to select which disks to initialize Uncheck the Disk item and click OK Within a few seconds the selected disk s should be marked as a Basic disk 3 Right click the configured...

Page 13: ... Specify the partition size By default the partition occupies the entire volume Click Next 7 Assign a drive letter or mount path and click Next 8 Name and format the partition and click 9 Review the file system settings and click to create the logical partition ...

Page 14: ...artition After you configure and partition the new volumes restore the backed up data to the new configuration 1 Launch Disk Utility from the Application Utilities folder 2 Select a configured disk and click the Partition tab This procedure illustrates the BIG Storage Policy configuration which concatenates the capacity of all hard drives connected to the device 3 Select 1 Partition from the Volum...

Page 15: ... is in use for the first time or the mode BIG JBOD RAID0 RAID1 is changed we must initialize and format the HDD before All information will be eliminated when format hard drives 2 When you need to change different mode BIG JBOD RAID0 RAID1 you must press the RESET button so that the enclosure can distinguish the exact mode 3 If you require a faster data transfer RAID0 MODE will be suggested to use...

Page 16: ... following specifications online Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 1 1 Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2 0 The USB Organization web site is http www usb org 4 2 Serial ATA HDD Populated with two Serial ATA SATA hard disk drives HDDs each unit can manage as much as 6 000 gigabytes i e 6 terabytes of data depending on the capacity of the hard disk drives that are installed By c...

Page 17: ...o Port 0 and then increase the storage capacity of the volume later by adding another hard disk drive to Port 1 and pressing the Mode Change pushbutton The new disk blocks of Port 1 will be concatenated to the end of the disk blocks of Port 0 and any data that is stored on the existing BIG volume will be preserved However it is not possible to expand an existing BIG volume by adding another hard d...

Page 18: ...r critical data that you cannot afford to lose if a hard drive fails but halves the amount of storage capacity because all data must be stored twice The resulting storage capacity of the virtual RAID1 volume will be equivalent to the size of one hard drive if both drives are the same or the smaller of the two drives if they are different If one drive fails the RAID1 volume is still usable but it i...

Page 19: ...nables you to manage hard disk partitions and volumes This utility is included as part of Windows XP Professional Edition Windows 2003 Server and Windows Vista For Windows 2000 or Windows XP Home Edition you must download the disk part utility from Microsoft s website Additional third party products such as Norton Partition Magic are available to perform similar volume management activities but th...

Page 20: ... the existing data that is stored on the volume The result of extending the hard disk partition volume is illustrated below Before extend After extend Note Before the hard drive partition volume has been extended the 152 67GB Unallocated was not accessible for data usage After using the disk part utility to extend the hard drive partition volume capacity the Windows host side matches the virtual h...