Manual FANTEC MR
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1. Self checking completes when LED shows blue light HDD carries on the self checking During Data transmission The HDD1 and the HDD2 LED flashing with purple light The Data transmission completes when LED shows the blue light During Data transmission The HDD1 and the HDD2 LED flashing with purple light The Data transmission completes when LED shows the blue light During Data transmission LED flashing with purple light while operating different HDD The Data transmission completes when LED shows the blue light During Data transmission The HDD1 and the HDD2 LED flashing with purple light The Data transmission completes when LED shows the blue 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 versa PATTERN HDD carries on the self checking HDD1 and the HDD2 LED flashing in turn with purple lights Self checking completes when the HDD LED shows blue light and the HDD2 LED goes out HDD1 and the HDD2 LED flashing in turn with purple lights Self checking completes when the HDD1 LED shows blue light and the HDD2 LED goes out RAIDO RAID1 HDD1 and the HDD2 LED flashing in turn with purple lights Self checking completes when the HDD1 LED shows blue light and the HDD2 LED goes out JBOD HDD1 and the HDD2 LED flashing in turn with purple lights Self checking completes when2. 1 Right click the My Computer icon on your desktop and select Manage from the pop up window Sempur Manigere ni ke e j cf Fras Tore W free Hey ite TA Me Oh Lae lew ordGoge l Patamarre Loy ord ibre D Oyo eww Jd Serer M LKE SS d Verena Or see Urussi re tee H H 10 Every disk should appear with the word Basic a size value that shows the available storage capacity and a status of Online Instead of Basic a disk could appear Unknown Dynamic or Not Initialized A window opens with the selected disk all Unknown disks may appear in this window Make sure the box next to each disk is checked and click OK The disk should now be marked as a Basic disk If a disk appears as Dynamic right click the disk icon and 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 disk s unallocated space and select New Partition If the New Partition option is not available select the disk and initialize it first To do this right click on the disk item and select Initialize Disk 11 5 Select the Primary or Extended option and click
3. 3 sec LED will keep bright and the host will be entering the RAIDO active status Turn the switch to RAID1 and hold the reset switch for 3 sec RAID1 LED keep bright and the host will be entering the RAID1 active status Turn the switch to JBOD and hold the reset switch for 3 sec JBOD LED keep bright and the host will be entering the JBOD active status Turn the switch to BIG and hold the reset switch for 3 sec BIG LED will keep bright the host will be entering the BIG active status Hard disk LED 8 B2 sends blue light and has long lasting bright light which indicates the hard disk connection is correct Hard disk LED amp 82 sends purple light and does not stop flashing which indicates the hard disk performing a Data transmission Hard disk LED amp S sends a constant purple light which indicates a rebuild is going on Hard disk LED 4 82 turns off which indicates the hard disk is disconnected LED condition Switch on power and insert two HD in terms of different working pattern PATTERN RAIDO RAID1 HDD1 and HDD2 LED flashing in turn with purple lights Self checking completes when LED shows blue light HDD1 and HDD2 LED flashing in turn with purple lights Self checking completes when LED shows blue light HDD1 and HDD2 LED flashing in turn with purple lights Self checking completes when LED shows blue light JBOD HDD1 and HDD2 LED flashing in turn with purple lights
4. Disk Management You should find only one new disks flagged as Unknown and Unallocated WORK Ir SOFT Th br ebay Ste ar Heth Heatly H eh op G rire Gomm we d H Prey rege E iird patton H Logan 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 Note When one of the hard disk is crashed the new hard drive has to be replaced while the device is running Turn the unit off and remove the faulty hard disk At the next step turn on the unit with the functional hard drive and wait for about 30 seconds Then insert the new hard drive into the bay from which you removed the faulty drive The recovery of the data will start automatically and is indicated by a constant purple light on the front 2 1 5 Partitioning Volumes This section explains how to partition volumes after initializing them You must partition volumes for the host computer s operating system before you can store data on the volumes Refer to the operating system s documentation for further 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
5. complete and the host data transfer performance will also be affected Virtual SAFE Fass Capacity is the same Virtual SAFE Fass Capacity is the maller volume B bee as one hard drive volume Be wl of unequal hard drives SteelVine Post 0 Port 1 Port 0 Port 1 EJ sch 120 GB_D 120 GB_ D SI Drive B Equal hard drives Unequal hard drives Figure 5 SAFE storage policy sample configuration 17 4 4 Supported Systems Windows 2000 XP VISTA 7 and MAC OS 9 0 and higher 4 4 1 System Expansion for Windows Overview This appendix describes the procedures needed with Microsoft Windows for expanding file systems that have been created on volumes that have increased in size while preserving all of your existing data After you have added more hard disk drives to increase the storage capacity of a BIG volume you must use the supplemental procedure described below to allow the expanded capacity to be recognized by the Windows file system A command line utility named Diskpart exe Disk Partition enables 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 those products are very sophist
6. FANTEC MR 35DU3e CDD DDODD DD HO DO OO HOD DD UCD e E USER MANUAL Menu dE WEE 1 1 PFOGUCT INTFOGUCTION eege dee eegen 2 2 QDONAU OM EE 3 2 1 USB and eSATA Interface 6 CN JBOD MOGUS reee e 6 22 BIG ModS EE 7 Famed le E 8 2A RAID EE 9 212d F e Oe ie luet e Uu 10 3o Le iste eee ne eee 14 DR Hl 15 4 1 USB 3 0 5 0 Gbps and eSATA 3 0 Gbps 0 15 ECH E le EE 15 4 3 4 Working Modes BIG JBOD RAIDO RAID1 15 4 4 Supported Systems 2 4 lt ecccecccesccenseeeccceseeecesescseseneseess 18 4 4 1 System Expansion for Windows Overview 18 5 Package content EE 19 1 Product Introduction SATA 2x HDD to USB 3 0 or eSATA interface Front 2 Operation UUUUUUUUUUUUOUUDUUUODUUUUU E e The Hard Disk Installation Sway from side to side the BECH and pull the doorknob to insert 1 or 2 hard disk Close the doorknob and the installation will be completed The step will be represented in terms of following graphs Note Sway from side to side the lock at the instructed point Si which you could open the doorknob to install unload the hard disk In contrast when you sway from d side to side the lock at the instructed point then you may not open it Connect to the computer host through USB and turn on the power FJ fantec rece 22 Turn the switch to RAIDO and hold the reset switch for
7. Next Setot Paritior Tee There on tee yrer of Ea unr penay tended md aged Soke gei paren you par So EE Aimy panier E dees parior Peiret d pmary pahor n vare ya create ung ree ipace on a bae ork gier anc other cpesirg iyen Can tation a pman pamon You car ee a Lag leisy erginn a F800 jy pM od a Gard ALELA tan best anoet 6 Specify the partition size By default the partition occupies the entire volume Click Next Mew f PIA A a Wizard Speedy Patton Sire Liwooe patho zm the 7 G t Te Cgegg rm ard rae was rei Marnan S08 ape e ronner Mi 4 un5 Mrexg ch space 1 ME 8 Ess yas HO 7 Assign a drive letter or mount path and click Next Mew Dart ther Wirard Asugn Dare Lette e Path fa aam acces you CR Sieft dre bte w Gee path to yos Gatton O hrag the tokave dove biter C part nihe Slowing pen NIFS kide Cpe ma gong a Am tim a Are pat 8 Name and format the partition and click 9 Review the file system settings and click to create the logical partition 12 Mac OS X Important Before reconfiguring a volume back up your data and drag the old drive to the trash to un mount previously defined partition If no hard drives are connected to the Storage Appliance the Processor disk 8 0 GB Config Disk Media will appear Do not remove or modify that partition After you configure and partition the new volumes restore the backed up data to the new configuratio
8. eSATA connection will be prioritized 7 eSATA hostcontroller needs to support the port multiplier function in order to work correctly with the JBOD mode 8 If your eSATA host doesn t support hot swap please connect and power on the case before you turning on the PC 14 4 Features 4 1 USB 3 0 5 0 Gbps and eSATA 3 0 Gbps The FANTEC MR 35DU3e provides the following Serial Advanced Technology Attachment SATA features Automatic negotiation between SATA 1 5Gbps and SATA II 3 0 Gbps Serial ATA 2 5 specification compliance Gen2m Serial ATA Port Multiplier 1 1 specification compliance For detailed information about SATA technology refer to the following specifications online Serial ATA High Speed Serialized AT Attachment Revision 1 0a Serial ATA Il Extensions to Serial ATA 1 0a Revision 1 1 Serial ATA Il Port Multiplier Revision 1 1 The Serial ATA web site is http www serialata org USB Features The FANTEC MR 35DU3e provides the following Universal Serial Bus USB features USB 1 0 and USB 2 0 specification compliance For detailed information about USB technology refer to the 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 4 000 gigabytes i e 4 t
9. erabytes of data depending on the capacity of the hard disk drives that are installed By combining multiple units in a daisy chained hierarchy structure you can increase the total storage capacity of your system 4 3 4 Working Modes BIG JBOD RAIDO RAID1 You can configure the FANTEC MR 35DU3e to use any of the following Storage Policies to map the appliance s physical hard drives to virtual drives that are visible to the host computer The virtual drives are called volumes in the GUI The host operating system treats each volume as if it were a single physical drive This virtualization allows you to overcome restrictions that are imposed by physical hard drives such as speed storage capacity or data storage reliability 15 BIG The BIG storage policy concatenates a series of physical hard drives as a single large volume resulting in a seamless expansion of virtual volumes beyond the physical limitations of singularly connected hard drives BIG storage policy delivers maximum storage space without a single large capacity and costly hard drive Hard drive A and B are concatenated into a single virtual volume in the Figure below with a storage capacity that is equal to the sum of each of the physical hard drives A and B Virtual BIG Fc Capacity is Drive A volume d plus Drive B SteelVine Port 0 Port 1 a EN EEN i Drive A Dives Figure 2 BIG storage policy sample configuration It is also possible to create a BIG vol
10. es with a storage capacity that is equal to the sum of both hard disk drives Virtual FAST Fea Capacity is Drive A i Gel plus Drive B p Striping across disks Figure 4 FAST storage policy sample configuration RAID1 The RAID1 storage policy stores all data in duplicate on separate drives to protect against data loss due to drive failure One drive mirrors the other at all times Every write operation goes to both drives RAID1 provides the highest level of data protection for 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 is in a vulnerable state because its mirrored hard drive is inaccessible When the offline drive comes back online the appliance begins a rebuild process immediately to restore data redundancy Although the volume remains available during the rebuild process the volume is susceptible to data loss through damage to the remaining drive until redundancy is restored at the end of the rebuild and verification process Host access takes precedence over the rebuild process If you continue to use the SAFE volume during the rebuild the rebuild process will take a longer time to
11. icated and are not included in this manual Procedure Before you can use DiskPart exe commands on a hard drive disk partition volume you must first list and then select the partition volume to extend 1 Open a command prompt window by clicking Start Run then entering cmd DR C WINDOWS system32 cmd exe ei x Fret S 2h ia l ft VieGowe SE Vereiosn 5 1 C Copyright 19685 2081 Micrecoft Q 2 At the command prompt type diskpart gt diskpart icrosoft DiskPart version 5 1 3565 opyright lt C gt 1999 28839 Microsoft Corporation 1 computer CYPRESSGC ISKPART gt 3 Type list volume to display the existing volumes on the computer DISKPART gt list volumc Unlume Ltr Lahel Volume DUD ROM i Volume 1 G Partition 7 G ealthy Susten Unlume 2 2 Partition 3G ealthy 18 4 Type select volume lt volume_number gt where lt volume_number gt is the number of the volume that you want to extend In this case that will be 2 DISKPART gt select volume 2 olume 2 is the selected volume 5 Type extend DISKPART gt extend DiskPart successfully extended the volume 6 Type exit to quit Diskpart exe DISKPART gt exit eaving DiskPart The volume size will be updated to reflect the expanded physical storage capacity while maintaining all of the existing data that is stored on the volume The result of extending the hard disk pa
12. l data will be erased Right click on My Computer click Manage the Computer Management should appear where you choose Disk Management You should find two new disks flagged as Unknown and or Unallocated al Computer Management s Fie Action Hein S a E Computer Mane wye s voore Layo type Fie System Status Gapecty Frees E Sytem Toch c Paun Basc PATIL Mestty Sysiew 14 6448 4 77 E p Evene Viewer SEA Patten Base NTFS Heath 19 5360 756c b Shared Folders new gl Pattin kaw NIPS Mast ry eo Mesi Gergen zfl gee Vol Partition Bes NTFS Hestii MSID T4446 Performance Logs and Ants Sener F Bette Bac FATE bea ry 259a 14 09 View Winchow BD Deve Manage SI WORK E Potton Basc FATZ heathy aa 16 04 sf Stor aye Q Fetz gt RB Peay pation BW Extended pation H Logos ave 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 2 1 2 BIG Modus Insert the two disks in the HDD1 and HDD2 rack and connect the device with the USB or eSATA amp Power cable Turn on the power switch the Mode to BIG and press the Reset button for a few seconds 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 shou
13. ld find the new disks flagged as Unknown and Unallocated B Uani 9 Ayos BH Ctra pation H Loca are 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 2 1 3 RAIDO Insert the two disks in the HDD1 and HDD2 rack and connect the device with the USB or eSATA amp Power cable Turn on the power switch the Mode to RAIDO and press the Reset button for a few seconds 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 LOULttsg EES 17 iff H j s foreattry I E Peep pete RB Eaton H Locsin 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 2 1 4 RAID1 Insert the two disks in the HDD1 and HDD2 rack and connect the device with the USB or eSATA amp Power cable Turn on the power switch the Mode to RAID1 and press the Reset button for a few seconds the computer will automatically recognize the USB device Right click on My Computer click Manage the Computer Management should appear where you choose
14. n 1 Launch Disk Utility from the Application gt Utilities folder a Oe VET s lt i SO CS C ness NEE Db geng Core W E ee bee ne H or CH Ars ap Mee ap i EE e e gt Ir uD P D vw bel res T y i EA de wre m G L e e r A p Veme samen gt r Jo e Parer be E WEE inann zg d m gt ei 7 e d j yt lt m A H ca l ge A e 7 e 7 G rang VM i e e Leer eo for bel ks d k kk KE f eh 5 yas banaan e i e Ge A i Be o A Gage A H Ga E ww i e mee m em rz 8 ware hirra K Ze ee 8 ore KS Ab mt Wwe y pP o EE E e E e pr el nh ker e e e e ee binn mi Ob ane 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 aan External Disk 0 Media t Partition RAD Restoue 4 Volume Information e Name My BIG Disk aS 5 Format Mac 05 Extended lournaled Wes i2 m 149 1 GE WDC WD16 gt Macentash HD L 465 5 GB External Disk Untetiod Gel Yolume Scheme L Partivon s al DI j edrteng RW install mac Us DISK Drivers My BIG Disk ee My BIG Disk To Create a volume thar can s rve as a Mac OS G start wp disk select Mac OS 9 Drivers installed select the dick you want to partmion and choose a volume scheme Click tach volume represented in the scheme and specify a volurne name fo
15. rmar and size Click Partmon Se Selir Notion keverni Partition Disk Description Extermal Disk 0 Medii Total Capacity Ann 8 CR 1500 1 18 700 032 Byres 4 Connection Bus SCS Write Status Read Write H Commection Type Fxtersal SMART Status Ki Supported Connection ID SCY Target ID 16 Logica no 3 Select 1 Partition from the Volume Scheme drop down list 4 Enter a name for the volume in the Name field Such as My BIG disk 13 5 Select Mac OS Extended journaled from the Format drop down list 6 Specify the size of the partition in the Size field 7 Click the Partition button 8 Click Partition to acknowledge the warning Disk Utility mounts the created partition and represents it with an icon on the desktop The icon is labeled with the partition name 3 Note 1 If this product is in use for the first time or the mode BIG JBOD RAIDO 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 RAIDO RAID1 you must press the RESET button so that the enclosure can distinguish the exact mode 3 If you require a faster data transfer RAIDO MODE will be suggested to use 4 If you require a higher data security RAID1 MODE will be suggested to use 5 If you require a bigger hard disk capacity BIG MODE will be suggested to use 6 Connecting USB amp eSATA simultaneously is impossible
16. rtition volume is illustrated below Before extend tue mmm Basic My MG Oisk OC 305 34 GE 2 66 GB NTFS 152 67 GD Praline Hee iy Jreliecskted After extend CH Miski H Bozie Ai BIG Disk E 305 33 GB 3 3GBNTFS Onbne eatin 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 hard drive partition volume 5 Package content FANTEC MR 35DU3e User manual AC Cable USB Cable eSATA Cable 19
17. the HDD LED shows blue light and the HDD2 LED goes out No transmission possible Under the Data transmission condition The HDD1 LED flashing with purple light and the HDD2 LED flashing in turn with purple lights The Data transmission completes when HDD1 LED shows blue light and the HDD2 LED goes out Under the Data transmission condition The HDD1 LED flashing with purple light and the HDD2 LED flashing in turn with purple lights The Data transmission completes when HDD1 LED shows blue light and the HDD2 LED goes out No transmission possible Attention 1 If you use two HDD simultaneously and discover that the LED1 or LED2 flashing with purple lights in turn for a long time Please check and see if the HDD has installed correctly 2 If you simultaneously use two HDD and the HDD damaged under RAIDO JBOD and BIG pattern the data on the HDD will lose Under the RAID1 pattern you may consider to take out the damaged HDD and replace formatted HDD instead 2 1 USB and eSATA Interface 2 1 1 JBOD Modus Insert the two disks in the HDD1 and HDD2 rack and connect the device with the USB or eSATA amp Power cable Turn on the power switch the Mode to JBOD and press 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 al
18. ume using only a single hard disk drive connected to 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 disk drive to Port 0 and still preserve any existing data on that volume JBOD The JBOD Just a Bunch of Disks storage policy enables each hard drive to be seen separately as one drive JBOD storage policy is for a standalone non cascadedq Storage Processor or the top level node of a cascaded configuration but not for subordinate nodes In a JBOD configuration each physical drive is directly exposed SN lt aio gn V AJ DnveA ES sl d Figure 3 JBOD storage policy sample configuration 16 RAIDO The RAIDO storage policy distributes access across all hard disks also called striping RAIDO presents the best data speed but no data redundancy RAIDO storage policy accelerates hard disk operating speed by using many disks in parallel Hard drive data segmenis are written to different disks simultaneously which increases performance while sacrificing data redundancy To implement the RAIDO storage policy the device creates a single virtual volume that is striped across both hard driv
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