User Manual RAIDECKER BT-3058
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1. 058 RAIDECKER BT 3 User Manual RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Introduction Digital products is present all over the market for a while already As a Storage like digital music files photographs home movies home video and extend to business records keeping on personal computer just reach new height again and again Because of consumers want more of it The explosion of all of this digital information is rapidly consuming available hard disk drive HDD space and creating a critical storage challenge BT 3058 RAIDECKER meets the needs of consumers who want to create share and ensure their digital information at hand The most compact external enclosure with mighty functionality including RAID 1 RAID 0 BIG JBOD It just surpass in HDD external case far away Such a cost effective and ready to use storage appliance providing enhanced data protection high performance storage and plug and play functionality It is just a easy way to operation storage appliance for protect your data RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Product Content1 2 2 meters eSATA cable Power adapter M3 4 flat head screws BT 3064 eSATA to USB adapter Hi speed USB 2 0 cable Optional RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Produ 2 2 PCI X Card Non RAID 1 1 PCI E Card Optional Optional PCMCIA Card for eSATA Optional Note If your host without an eSATA port and you intend to connect with eSATA cable an e2. with Serial ATA replacing the parallel ATA interface that has served the last decade of PCs Parallel interfaces such as the older ATA disk interface have difficulty in scaling to higher speeds needed in today s systems Serial interfaces not only offer higher data rates but also smaller cables and connectors and lower voltage signals for internal storage In addition They provide an interface technology that can scale to accommodate system needs for increasing storage capacity and performance over the next decade Additionally the Serial ATA interface is well suited for external application and provides a number of advantages over the USB and 1394 interfaces used today According to John Monroe Research Vice President Gartner By the end of 2005 SATA will become the dominant standard HDD interface and by the end of 2007 SATA should achieve 100 percent penetration in all desktop and notebook HDD markets The BT 3058 adopt eSATA is just to the trend As most of the external drives are typically connected with a USB interface to most PCs The BT 3064 is a help to transform eSATA interface to USB for compliant with existing USB interface eSATA Cables and Connectors The cables and connectors used to attach Serial ATA Drives to your computer are as follows External Serial ATA Port RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Cables and connectors2 2 eSATA to USB Adapter As most of the external drives are typically connected
3. a Performance Logs and Alerts Device Manager EMWINEK Ci Partition Basic NTFS Healthy Systemi 77GB 514GB Disk 0 Fa Storage Basic WIN WIN 7 Removable Storage 74 53 GE 9 77 9 77 147 81 1 0 50 3 91 oo 20 72 I 10 07 Go Arene Online Healt Healt He Heat He He Heal He Free Unallo Disk M t BERS ESDisk 1 i ee E Services and Applications Basic 152 50 GE 152 50 GB Online Unallocated New Partition Pbisk 2 RE c a Basic 152 50 GE 152 50 GE Help Online Unallocated RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Partitioning Configured Volume 4 Click Next to start the Partition Wizard New Partition Wizard Ed Welcome to the New Partition Wizard This wizard helps you create a partition on basic disk 4 basic disk 18 a physical disk that contains primary partitions extended partitions and logical dives You can use any version of Windows or MS O0S to gain access to partitions on basic disks To continue click Hert 3 Select the Primary or Extended option and click Next New Partition Wizard Select Partition Type There are three types of partitions primary extended and logical Select the partition you want to create Ce Primary partition Extended partition Logical drive Description A primary partition is a volume vou create Using tree space on basic disk Windows and other operating systems can start from primary partition ou can create up
4. used to initiate the mode defined by DIP SWITCH 1 amp 2 Upon power up the 3058 checks the DIP SWITCH looking to see if DIP SWITCH 4 is ON If so in resets it s internal RAID mapping table based on the configuration of DIP SWITCH 1 amp 2 Resetting a configuration table is a destructive operation All data on the disks will be lost The size of the virtual disk reported to the host will change depending on the chosen RAID level DIP SWITCH labeled Verify and 6 is used to enable mirror verification When enabled the 3058 will verify the mirror after it finishes a rebuild of a mirror set DIP SWITCH labeled INT RBLD and 7 is used to force a rebuild of a mirror set when the 3058 is in SAFE mode This jumper must be capped to initialize a rebuild when SAFE mode is set using DIP SWITCH 1 amp 2 If upon power up DIP SWITCH 4 is not ON no mapping table change will take effect regardless of DIP SWITCH 1 amp 2 Settings and the current mode is maintained A power cycle is always required for a new mapping table change to take effect RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Quick Installation for RAIDECKER 3058 Board HOW TO USE THE JUMPERS TO CHANGE MODES BIG mode Concatenation a Power off the 3058 b Connect the 3058 host port to your host computer s SATA port c DIP SWITCH 1 ON DIP SWITCH 2 OFF d DIP SWITCH 4 ON e Apply power f Wait 10 seconds then while power is still applied DIP S
5. SATA PCI E card or PCI X card for Desk Top or PCMCIA card for Notebook is necessary RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Instruction1 2 Front View 1 power green for power on status 2 fan err red for fan error status 3 JBOD green for JBOD policy working status 4 BIG green for BIG policy working status 5 RAIDO green for RAID 0 policy working status 6 RAIDI1 green for RAID 1 policy working status 7 HOST on top of HOST green for contacting with host status below HOST flash blue for data transferring status 8 HDD1 upper deck disk location on top of HDD1 green for contacting with disk status below HDD1 flash blue for data transferring status 9 HDD2 bottom deck disk location on top of HDD2 green for contacting with disk status below HDD flash blue for data transferring status 10 push button for release top cover D 4 GIOIO RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Instruction2 2 Side View 1 Top cover 2 upper deck for 2 5 H D D accommodation 3 M3 screw for fix H D D 4 Bottom cover 5 Push button for release bottom cover 6 Bottom deck for 2 5 H D D accommodation 7 M3 screw for fix H D D Rear View 1 Power on off switch 2 Power adapter slot 7 3 eSATA slot 4 Fan ventilator 5 Rubber foots 6 Stand off RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Cables and connectors1 2 The disk drive industry is undergoing a significant technology transition
6. WITCH 4 OFF g Using your host computer s disk utility My Computer Manage Disk Management if using Windows partition and format the disk FAST mode RAID 0 a Power off the 3058 board b Connect the 3058 host port to your host computer s SATA port c DIP SWITCH 1 OFF DIP SWITCH 2 ON d DIP SWITCH 4 ON e Apply power f Wait 10 seconds then while power is still applied DIP SWITCH 4 ON g Using your host computer s disk utility My Computer Manage Disk Management if using Windows RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Quick Installation for RAIDECKER SAFE mode The hard drive on SATA port 0 will be mirrored to the hard drive on SATA port 1 a Power off the 3058 board b Connect the 3058 host port to your host computer s SATA port c DIP SWITCH 1 amp 2 ON d DIP SWITCH 4 ON e Apply power f Wait 10 seconds then while power is still applied DIP SWITCH 4 OFF g Using your host computer s disk utility My Computer Manage Disk Management if using Windows DIP SWITCH 7 is ON the 3058 will initiate a rebuild from disk 0 to disk 1 upon first power up in this mode JBOD mode Requires a port multiplier aware host a Power off the 3058 b Connect the 3058 host port to your host computer s SATA port c DIP SWITCH 1 amp 2 OFF d DIP SWITCH 4 ON When this DIP SWITCH is ON it will reset the 3058 to whatever setting is defined by DIP SWITCH 1 amp 2 in this case BIG when the 3058 boa
7. ation is in JBOD mode To change the storage policy configuration mode please refer to next page Storage Mode There are four kinds of different mode as BT 3058 adapted You can use the jumpers to select the mode which you like JBOD This storage policy grants the host computer direct access to a physical disk drive With JBOD just a bunch of disks the number of available virtual drives is equal to the number of physical drives JBOD is also called the bypass mode because the host bypasses the virtualization engine to access the drive directly SAFE This storage policy makes all data stored in duplicate on separate hard disk drives to prevent data loss due to drive failure At least two hard disk drives mirror each other at all times equivalent to RAID 1 Every write operation goes to both drives SAFE provides the highest level of data protection but halves the amount of storage space because all data must be stored twice To implement the SAFE storage policy the Basic Configuration Wizard creates two volumes Each volume consists of two hard disk drives that mirror each other The remaining hard disk drive is specified as a Hot Spare for both volumes BIG This storage policy makes multiple physical hard disk drives strung together concatenated and treated as one large volume This configuration allows you to increase logical volume size beyond the capacity of individual hard disk drives BIG provides the maximum amount of storage spa
8. ce but no additional performance of data redundancy The Basic Configuration Wizard implements the BIG storage policy by concatenating all the hard disk drives into a single volume FAST In FAST storage policy the I O processing is balanced evenly to all drives in a method known as striping equivalent to RAID 0 Striping increases storage operation speed by using several disk drives in parallel Each portion of data is divided into segments that are written to different disks simultaneously Striping provides improved performance but does not enhance reliability because there is no way to retrieve or reconstruct data stored on a failed drive To implement the FAST storage policy the Basic Configuration Wizard creates a single volume of four hard disk drives in a striped format The remaining hard disk drive is designated as a standalone volume using the BIG storage policy Note After you change the storage mode you would be lost all data in before storage mode if you do not save the data to another place RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Quick Installation for RAIDECKER How to use the jumpers to change storge modes IDENTIFYING THE JUMPERS The DIP SWITCH marked below are the only DIP SWITCH used to configure the 3058 SEE FIG A DIP SWITCH 1 amp 2 are used to select the mode for the 3058 PCB board DIP SWITCH 3 is used to enable GUI only configuration mode This will override DIP SWITCH 4 DIP SWITCH 4 is
9. e Mm H zin mj Computer Management Local File System Status Capacity Free Space i System Tools EJ WINXP Es Partition Basic NTFS Healthy Boot 9 77 GE 1 05 GB ul Event Viewer ESWIN2K fc Partition Basic NTFS Healthy System 77GB 5 14 GB Shared Folders w X Local Users and Groups 4 gt E Performance Logs and Alerts F Device Manager lt Disk 0 RS ee iL Li a uJ Storage Basic WIN WIN Removable Storage 4 99 GE IFF Dee 10 07 Unallo Online Healt Healt E Disk 1 E Basic Disk Defragmenter ca Services and Applications 152 50 B 152 50 GB Online Unallocated BDisk 2 SSE Basic 152 50 36 152 50 GB Online Unallocated Note The Disk numbers in the Windows Disk Manager may be different from the Volume numbers shown in the above Be sure to select the correct disk based on the expected disk capacity to create a partition 3 Right click on 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 Computer Management a m File Action view Window Help gt 2 hse Computer Management Local File System Capacity Free Space i System Tools COMWINKPTE S Partition Basic NTFS Healthy Boot 9 77 GB 1 05 GB Fa Event Viewer 5 Shared Folders Ps Local Users and Groups
10. partition New Partition Wizard Completing the New Partition Wizard ou have successfully completed the New Partition Wizard ou selected the following settings Partition type Primary partition Disk selected Disk 1 Partition size 156755 ME Drive letter or path F File system NTFS Allocation unt size Default Volume label Hew Volume Chark tarnak ec To close this wizard click Finish 10 Repeat steps 1 through 9 to partition any remaining disks
11. rd is powered on e Apply power f Wait 10 seconds then while power is still applied DIP SWITCH 4 OFF g Using your host computer s disk utility My Computer Manage Disk Management if using Windows partition and format the disk In order to see both drives in JBOD mode your computer s SATA host controller must be port multiplier aware DIP SWITCH POSITION MODE JBOD BIG RADo RAID COCO CC CIC CONFIG mode only config update botton CONFIG6 OFF no change ON update 3 CONFIG2 GUI Configuration CONFIG7 N C RAID1 REBUILLD AUTO REBUILLD VERIFY FOR RAID 1 AUTO REBUILLD AUTO REBUILLD FOR RAID 1 USED RAID 1 8 BUZZER ON OFF REBUILLD RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Partitioning Configured Volume In order to utilize the hard disk drive of your installation You probable have to initialize your hard disk drive after storage mode made This section explains how to partition volume after configuring them with the Jumper Partition a Volume MS Windows 1 Right click the My Computer icon and select Manage from the pop up window s Open My Co Explore Search Map Network Drive Disconnect Network Drive Create Shortcut Delete Rename Properties RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Partitioning Configured Volume 2 From the Computer Management window select Disk Management under Storage to open Windows Disk Manager m Computer Management DAR File Action es Window Help a x
12. to four primary partitions or three primary partitions and an extended partition Back Il Hest gt Cancel RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Partitioning Configured Volume 6 Specify the partition size By default the partition occupies the entire volume Click Next Hew Partition Wizard Specify Partition Size Choose partition size that is between the masimum and minimum sizes Masum disk space in megabytes ME 156755 Minimum disk space in ME E Partition size in ME 7 Assign a drive letter or mount path and click Next Hew Partition Wizard Assign Drive Letter or Path For Basie access YOU can assign dive letter or drive path to your partition L Do not assign a drive letter or drive path RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Partitioning Configured Volume 8 Select file system and name the partition and click Next New Partition Wizard Format Partition To store data on this partition you must format it first Choose whether vou want to format this partition and if so what settings you want to use Do not format this partition Format this partition with the following settings File system NT F5 w Allocation unit size Default Volume label New Volume Pertorm quick format Enable file and folder compression es are 9 Review the file system settings and click Finish to create the logical
13. with a USB interface to the host The BT 3064 is a help to transform eSATA interface to USB for compliant with existing USB interface for data transfer purpose Serial ATA Port Hi speed USB port RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Quick Installation for RAIDECKER Step 1 a FULL FILL 2 5 HARD DISK Upper deck Open up cover by press the button b Slip 2 5 hard disk into first deck and connection with SATA connector d Close the top cover RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Quick Installation for RAIDECKER Step2 Below deck a Release below deck by press the button at both sides and slip it forward to rear side b Slip 2 5 hard disk into deck and connection with SATA connector c Tighten the M3 screws at both sides d Silp in the bottom cover untila click sound appear RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Quick Installation for RAIDECKER Step 3 Connection a Connect the power adapter b Connect one end of the eSATA cable to the RAIDECKER and the other end to your host computer Note Make sure your computer Host with an eSATA port Most of computers do not provide with eSATA port now If not An eSATA PCI X or PCI E or PCMCIA card is necessary Or an eSATA to USB adapter is needed as well Note The eSATA to USB adapter capable for work with RAIDECKER to connect with host RAIDECKER BT 3058 User Manual Quick Installation for RAIDECKER The BT 3058 default configur
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