DataTale AIR, User Manual

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Page 2: ... INSIDE VIEW 8 BOTTOM VIEW 9 PACKAGE CONTENTS 9 INSERTING HARD DRIVES IN THE RAID UNIT 10 FASTEN THE HDD PLACEMENT HOLDER ONTO THE HDDS 11 RAID MASTER 16 INSTALLATION 16 RAID MASTER MENU 17 RAID MASTER OPERATION 18 CREATE A RAID 18 CHANGING THE MOST RECENT ASSIGNED RAID MODE 20 DELETING AN ASSIGNED RAID MODE 22 REBUILD 24 MIXED RAID STATUS 28 DEVICE INFORMATION 30 NUMBER OF DISKS SUPPORTING EACH R...

Page 3: ...ARGE 34 JBOD NON RAID 35 Q As 36 GENERAL 36 DAISY CHAIN 36 OLD HDDs 36 HDD SIZE 36 HDD CAPACITY 37 DISCREPANCY IN REPORTED ACTUAL SIZE CAPACITY 37 REBUILD 37 RAID MASTER CONNECTION RESTRICTION 37 OVER 2TB 38 LINUX 39 APPENDIX 40 ...

Page 4: ...s device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment This equipment ...

Page 5: ...y the power supply cable provided with the RAID Unit Can use both 9 5mm or 12 5mm high 2 5 SATA HDDs inside the RAID Unit Do NOT attempt to service this RAID Unit yourself Please contact Technical Support regarding any parts other than ones mentioned in the Installation section of this User s Manual Do NOT block the ventilation Proper airflow is required to ensure reliable operation and to prevent...

Page 6: ...FEATURES Supports current 2 5 inch 9 5mm or 12 5mm thick SATA II compliant HDDs fully backward compatible with SATA 1 0 and SATA 1 0a compliant HDDs Supports over 2TB storage capacity Connects flexibly via Hi Speed USB USB2 0 connection IEEE 1394b FireWire 800 connection or eSata eSATA connection Combines RAID Unit and 1394 repeater functionality Provides JBOD Non RAID RAID 0 Striping RAID 1 Mirro...

Page 7: ... IEEE 1394b port MAC Macintosh PowerPC or Intel processors 64MB of RAM Mac OS X 10 4 requires 256MB of RAM Mac OS X 10 4 Intel or higher One available USB 2 0 eSATA or IEEE 1394b port Time Machine Compatible 2 5 inch SATA compatible hard drive is required for the RAID Unit Once the HDD s is are formatted the actual available storage capacity can vary depending on the selected operating environment...

Page 8: ...NT VIEW FireWire 800 DC IN Power Switch eSATA USB LED Panel Power Disk1 Disk2 The status indication of each LED indicator is listed under the LED INDICATORS section INSIDE VIEW HDD Placement Holders HDD Screws Disk1 Disk2 8 ...

Page 9: ...BOTTOM VIEW PACKAGE CONTENTS RS S2TJ 2 5 inch RAID Unit Power Adapter FireWire cable eSATA cable USB cable 4 HDD Mounting Screws Carrying Case User Guide 9 ...

Page 10: ...RAID Unit with its Bottom View facing you Unfasten all four 4 Casing Screws with a Phillips screwdriver Afterwards turn the RAID Unit to its Cover side 2 Lift the Cover upward to remove it When opened the PCBA boards Printed Circuit Board should be securely in place inside the RAID Unit HDD Placement Holders HDD Screws Disk1 Disk2 10 ...

Page 11: ... Bottom casing 4 Position the HDD Placement Holder onto the HDD end facing away from the interface connectors and aligned with the screw hole openings Fasten the HDD Placement Holder onto the HDD by inserting and tightening two 2 HDD Screws on both ends of the HDD Placement Holder Repeat Steps 3 and 4 for the other HDD 11 ...

Page 12: ...nd HDD Placement Holder s alignment are properly situated Then re fasten and tighten the HDD Screw previously removed from the HDD Placement Holder and the casing Repeat the same procedure for the other HDD 6 Place the RAID Unit facing you Align the Cover according to the appropriate interface opening gaps and place it on the RAID Unit 12 ...

Page 13: ...over is placed on the RAID Unit use both hands to firmly hold and turn the RAID Unit to its Bottom View Find the four 4 Casing Screws previously taken out before and re fasten them in the appropriate screw holes 13 ...

Page 14: ... the AC DC Adapter Then replace it with a different Adapter Head in the same manner Press here to release the clip 2 Insert both ends of the USB 2 0 eSATA or FireWire 800 cable s into the corresponding port of the RAID Unit and the host The RAID Unit should only be connected to a host computer via one interface Connection of the RAID Unit to a computer via two or more interfaces simultaneously is ...

Page 15: ... concerns if the Disk LEDs blink or flash in red for a very short period of time during power on When the HDDs are detected the Disk LEDs will become and remain in blue 5 You are now ready to begin using your RAID Unit Due to compatibility issues if you use the eSATA interface to do the data transfer the Silicon Image eSATA host controller is highly recommended When using FireWire 800 you can Dais...

Page 16: ...ny preferred location 3 Open the folder and double click on RAID MASTER and the menu should appear You are now ready to configure your RAID Mac Users http oyendigital com tech RAID_MASTER_MAC zip 1 Upon completion of the download open the file to begin the installation 2 The RAID Master GUI will be available in the Applications folder 3 Click on the file RAID_Master_Mac to start the GUI You are no...

Page 17: ...igurations under Configuration and Rebuild options o Provides HDD s current RAID status o Indicates individual HDD s current disk information DEVICE INFORMATION o Provides the basic information of the RAID Unit itself once the RAID Unit is connected to the host the Device s information and serial number for each inserted HDDs 17 ...

Page 18: ...he Create RAID Apply icon If cannot see what is are connected as part of the RAID Unit press the Refresh button on top of the first sub menu top The information should appear afterwards Please review the RAID mode options under RAID MODES to choose the best suitable RAID mode for your needs and desire If the number of inserted HDDs does not qualify the quantity needed for a particular RAID mode th...

Page 19: ...upport information 2 Once selected the RAID MASTER will give an alert popup window stating all data on disk will be lost Proceed Click on Yes icon to confirm 3 Once confirmed the RAID MASTER will begin processing the chosen RAID Mode onto the chosen HDD s Once the process is completed the RAID Status and Disk Information should reflect the newly assigned RAID mode The RAID Unit is now ready to be ...

Page 20: ...backup all data before changing the RAID Mode 1 Under the Configuration option tab select the RAID mode prefer changing to and click the Create RAID Apply icon If the host can support more than 2TB HDD s storage capacities and the HDD s is are over 2TB remember to check the Over 2TB option under the Configuration option tab Please see Over 2TB section under Q As for more information Please review ...

Page 21: ...on Yes icon to confirm 3 Once confirmed the RAID MASTER will begin processing the chosen RAID Mode onto the chosen HDD s Once the process is completed the RAID Status and Disk Information should reflect the newly assigned RAID mode The chosen HDD s RAID is are now ready to be used under the new preferred RAID Mode 21 ...

Page 22: ...lease complete the following steps Deleting a RAID Mode will delete all data stored on the HDD s If you have important saved data in the hard drives backup all data before deleting the RAID Mode 1 Under the Configuration option tab click the Delete RAID icon to change the HDD s into JBOD Non RAID disks 22 ...

Page 23: ... on Yes icon to confirm 3 Once confirmed the RAID MASTER will begin erasing the old RAID Mode for the chosen HDD s Once the process is completed the RAID Status and Disk Information should reflect the chosen HDD s as JBOD Non RAID The chosen HDD s RAID is are now ready to be used under the new preferred RAID Mode 23 ...

Page 24: ...with the same capacity and RPM is highly recommended 1 When the failed HDD is removed a popup window stating Attention Hot Swap will appear Click on Ok icon to continue 2 Another popup window will appear stating Attention RAID 1 Degrade Mode Click on Ok to continue When one of the HDD has failed the Disk LED will become red However no warnings will appear on RAID MASTER to notify the user Please p...

Page 25: ...o rebuild the New HDD the new functional HDD with the data from the Old HDD the remaining functional HDD sector by sector click on the Rebuild icon The New HDD may be inserted into either Disk 1 or Disk 2 because the Rebuild feature can be performed in either direction 4 A popup window stating Copy Data From Disk 1 to Disk 2 All data in Disk 2 will be lost Continue Click on the Yes icon to confirm...

Page 26: ...y vary or decrease Hence data access of the HDD s during Rebuild is highly not recommended Even if the RAID Unit loses connection to the host the Rebuild will continue If the RAID Unit is powered off the RAID Unit will retain the Rebuild status in its memory When the RAID Unit is powered on again the Rebuild process will resume from the previous status 6 After the rebuild is completed data from Ol...

Page 27: ... is only available under RAID 1 mode If the Rebuild option tab is selected under any other RAID mode a popup window will appear stating Attention There should be two disks with at least one RAID 1 disk for Rebuild Mode 27 ...

Page 28: ...lete the following steps 1 The New HDD will appear as RAID 0 Broken or other variations depending on the situation for other RAID modes The existing HDD will appear as JBOD for individual HDD or other variations depending on the situation for other RAID modes 2 To erase the previous formatting in the New HDD click the Delete RAID Info icon under Disk Information Delete RAID Info will erase all dat...

Page 29: ...3 Once completed the New HDD is ready to be used as JBOD or combined with the existing HDD under a chosen RAID mode 29 ...

Page 30: ...rmation The connected RAID Unit s information with Device model of the RAID Unit s and serial numbers of each inserted HDDs Because the RAID MASTER can manage more than one unit of the RAID Unit each RAID Unit connected to the host computer will reflect as Device __ and in numbering order Device 1 Device 2 respectively Due to chipset configuration the Device List will reflect the HDDs as M0 and M1...

Page 31: ...NUMBER OF DISKS SUPPORTING EACH RAID MODE LED INDICATORS The LED Panel has a thin plastic film for protection It may be removed if prefer having a clearer view POWER LED DISK LEDS 31 ...

Page 32: ... can still use the RAID Unit by NOT checking the Over 2TB option under the Configuration option tab The RAID MASTER should automatically re adjust the available HDD s storage capacity and format the chosen RAID mode under 2TB Please see Over 2TB section under Q As for more information SAFE REMOVAL OF THE RAID UNIT Safe removal of the RAID Unit from the host controller is highly recommended especia...

Page 33: ... best capacity utilization RAID O STRIPING RAID 0 Striping is a performance oriented non redundant data mapping technique It combines multiple hard drives into a single logical unit Instead of seeing several different hard drives the operating system sees only one large drive Striping splits data evenly across two or more disks simultaneously dramatically increasing performance Striping can be imp...

Page 34: ... A B C D In Mirroring mode if one of the disks fails either source or backup the data is still available However if the Old disk fails during the Rebuild process the data in both disks will be lost SPAN LARGE Spanning provides another maximum capacity solution which some call it as Large Spanning combines multiple hard drives into a single logical unit Unlike Striping Spanning writes data to the f...

Page 35: ...Disks JBOD refers to a group of hard drives In JBOD the number of logical drives is equal to the number of physical drives This mode allows the RAID Unit to operate as a multi disk storage enclosure but provides no data redundancy JBOD Disk 1 Disk 2 A B C D Ä ß Ç µ 35 ...

Page 36: ...te DAISY CHAIN Q Because there are two 2 FireWire ports on the RAID Unit I connected them to my other two 2 external devices Why can t I see these additional external devices on my host I m using the USB connection from the RAID Unit to my host A In order for the Daisy Chain feature to work properly on the RAID Unit one of the FireWire ports need to be connected to the host and the other one can b...

Page 37: ... while the hard drive calculation is based on 1000 instead of 1024 Hard drive manufacturers define a megabyte as 1 000 000 bytes and a gigabyte as 1 000 000 000 bytes which is a decimal base 10 measurement Computers define a megabyte as 1 048 576 bytes and a gigabyte as 1 073 741 824 bytes These are binary base 2 measurements This is why the two different industries will report different capacitie...

Page 38: ...ore information If the host can support more than 2TB HDD s storage capacities and the HDD s is are over 2TB check the Over 2TB option under the Configuration option tab Because the Unit requires OS 10 4 and above for MAC which automatically supports over 2TB the Over 2TB option would not appear under the RAID MASTER for MAC This popup window may appear if the host s OS cannot support over 2TB of ...

Page 39: ...S Regarding Over 2TB support please see the table below OS 1394 USB SATA Linux Fedora Core 8 32 bit No No Yes Linux Fedora Core 8 64 bit No No Yes Linux Fedora Core 10 64 bit No Yes Yes Linux Fedora Core 11 32 bit No Yes Yes Linux Fedora Core 12 64 bit Yes Yes Yes Linux Fedora Core 13 32 bit Yes Yes Yes Q Can I use external bootup under Linux OS A Yes but only via eSATA connection 39 ...

Page 40: ...eSATA up to 3Gbit sec 1394b up to 800Mbit sec USB 2 0 up to 480Mbit sec RAID Level JBOD Non RAID RAID 0 Striping RAID 1 Mirroring Span Large LED Indicators Power Connection Health Access Rebuild System Material Aluminum case with plastic parts Power Supply Input AC 100 240V Output DC 5V 2A Or bus power from host via FireWire 800 1394b cable Dimension 155 L x 155 W x 22 5 H mm Weight without HDD 26...