FANTEC MR-35DU3-6G
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3. B features USB 1 0 USB 2 0 and USB3 0 specification compliance For detailed information about USB technology refer to the following specifications online http Awww usb org 4 2 Serial ATA HDD Populated with two Serial ATA SATA hard disk drives HDDs each unit can manage as much as 12000 gigabytes 12 TB which is 6 TB per disk 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 35DU3 6G 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
4. FANTEC MR 35DU3 6G USER MANUAL Menu Eu LEE 1 1 Prod ct INTFOGUCTION isiin aana 2 2 ODOT AUOM isisa aaia 3 2 1 RAID MOQ SEUD enn 4 Selen 5 ONG DIG le e EE 6 2 Neo AS E 7 KE TR 8 2 12D F AFUMIOMING VOIUIMCS EEN 9 DR Te E 13 AO EE 15 4 1 External storage solution USB 3 0 5 0 Gbps 15 A 2 Serial ATA HDD saniey 15 4 3 4 Working Modes BIG JBOD RAIDO RAID1 15 AA SUBDONEO SY EE 18 5 Package e e ET E 18 1 Product Introduction Enclosure for 2x SATA HDD to USB 3 0 Front Back 2 Operation e FF fantec 4 ve RESET Site The Hard Disk Installation Sway from side to side the ce 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 side to side the lock at the instructed point p then you may not open it e USB 3 0 F7 fantec re ce 2 z EN Attention In order to avoid wrong handling or accidently deleting the data the initial setup of the RAID mode is always beginning at RAID level JBOD Afterwards you can set your preferred RAID mode 2 1 RAID mode setup 1 At first please set the switch for the RAID level selection to JBOD Now please press the RESET button and p
5. Seter TMA MNS A Dot dee H z rwa above Lxe lerr daagt B Utani E Pneypin 2 Select Disk Management under Storage to open the Windows Disk Manager we S eg Ratm rasl gh ye p Wee p Hae S Ju Urussi B re roetup H a 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 10 5 Select the Primary or Extended option and click Next Setot Paritior Tee There on ihre ypes of pathoor Eer
6. der a aon res 0 ee 13 PR mi ween e U mrn Core d e A e See e fsmrg A ES Le gt IEN kri P ve T va K ab ELLE T mm 8 Serres Ry bg e e H OH rege Vretan bh ed GH A E e w e T d e f z d A ve pe PX set Sem ja e E W y Ea 7 rang VM oc re E reer i e bel ks d EA TZ i E e H d E ER Ak es TEEN e i mee em tt 3 sraa irra K sg Ze 4 by Q ms d K Ad mt y ere E E oe fl ch mn ber e ery birn mm 21 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 ann External Dusk 0 Media 149 1 G8 WDC WD16 Macentash HD L 465 5 GB External Disk Untitled Gel Yolurne Scheme L Paten s ei IG3Al Mac LI zap Drivers My BIG Disk To crease a wohume thas Can cores as a Mac OF 0 start wp disk select Mac OS 9 Drivers installed 3 select the dick you want to partmion and choose a volume scheme Click tach volume represented in the scheme and toec y a volume name fornat and size Click Parrmon 7 a Slit Naio Reven Partition mg Disk Description External Disk 0 Medii Total Capacity 465 8 CR 1500 1 18 700 032 Byres Gel Connection Bus SCS Write Status Read swrite Connection Type Fxitersal SMART Status Not Supported gt Connection ID STS Target 1D 16 Logica no 3 Se
7. ewer sel D Pattona Base NIFS Dr ar 19S3CB SC gt Shared Folders Cineva Petes Ban NIPS Haat ry mS Ma E end Dep Ie ge Vol Patton Bes NIFS heath SIGD 74 46 Performance Logs and Ants Sener ie Bettie Ba FATI bonny DMG 146 09 a G ER E Partition Basc FATI Healthy Sib 16 04 Perreov e Zeg age R Drk Deft agmerter Des Monagemert H Services ond Ach seng A ena F Boek 1 Baste gt Sisk ar k M532 74 53 GENTFS Onire gt Peay pation amp tvrrckad patton H Loges ane 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 amp Power cable Follow the instructions from point 2 1 RAID mode setup After 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 iw wits z te 3o woe B Ucan H Ayos H Loss patter 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 Vol
8. icking 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 the blinking status LEDs on the left side of the enclosure 4 DI f np P DI ity 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 1 Right click the My Computer icon on your desktop and select Manage from the pop up window Le 20 eregerren yt Sri fie Yer has br wm Open qed 2p WW toir e t ges Memeo lees View Laver Tyee Ma Stan ane vg Fras Tape WM faee L ORE i Water o I Cater Leg Ei bey i
9. lect 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 12 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 If you require a faster data transfer RAIDO MODE will be suggested to use 3 If you require a higher data security RAID1 MODE will be suggested to use 4 If you require a bigger hard disk capacity BIG MODE will be suggested to use 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 it by a new HDD instead 13 LED condition Switch on power and insert two HD in terms of different working patter
10. n 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 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 HDD1 LED shows blue light and the HDD2 LED g
11. oes out 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 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 when 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 4 Features 4 1 External storage solution USB 3 0 5 0 Gbps The FANTEC MR 35DU3 6G provides the following Serial Advanced Technology Attachment SATA features Automatic negotiation between SATA I 1 5Gbps SATA II 8 0 Gbps and SATA III 6 0 Gbps For detailed information about SATA technology refer to the following specifications online http www serialata org USB Features The FANTEC MR 35DU3 6G provides the following Universal Serial Bus US
12. ower on the device while keeping the RESET button pressed After about 5 seconds release the RESET button 2 Shift the RAID level switch to your preferred RAID mode RAIDO RAID1 JBOD BIG and power off the unit 3 Again press and hold the RESET button while powering on the unit and keep it pressed for about 5 seconds 2 1 1 JBOD Modus Insert the two disks in the HDD1 and HDD2 rack and connect the device with the USB amp Power cable Follow the instructions from point 2 1 RAID mode setup After 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 two new disks flagged as Unknown and or Unallocated g Lomputer Management Buse a Serves and Seck ators Loca Users end Groves Porformerce Logs are Alerts BD Device Manager a Z re wm d Removable Qu nm f Dsk Defragmenter Desk Management 8 Service and Angi stiors Computer Management A Fie Action View Window Help gt mo Des Commenter Figure Lex gi Yolume Leet lType l Fie Sytem Status Gapecty Free 5 Eh Sytem Toots ETA Paun Ben FATI m in System Jang 4 774 E j Evene Vi
13. torage 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 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
14. ume 2 1 3 RAIDO Insert the two disks in the HDD1 and HDD2 rack and connect the device with the USB amp Power cable Follow the instructions from point 2 1 RAID mode setup After 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 s SUR PST TE RTE s h ie ij E e ri re dt file PTE s d Wet 7 ke EY r aun Me te gt me f NSi i i Leraar Pentra COULCUsg fur rt d M 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 amp Power cable Follow the instructions from point 2 1 RAID mode setup After 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 only one new disks flagged as Unknown and Unallocated Lei Lepiti Manawrne nt Right click the Unknown disk and select Initialize Disk now you can format the disk by right cl
15. 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 Km Capacity is Drive A i volume 1 plu Ak 0 __3 plus Drive B SteelVine Port 0 Port 1 REN a il Drive A Dive B Eais SEH Figure 2 BIG storage policy sample configuration 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 Figure 3 JBOD storage policy sample confiquration 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 segments 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 drives 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 s
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