Addonics Technologies AE25RDESU manual

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    Addonics T E C H N O L O G I E S Portable Dual Drive RAID Enclosure Model: AE25RDESU User’s Guide FCC Warning Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of t he FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a [...]

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    Installation G uide 1. To remove the front door of the enclosure, loosen screws on each side. 2. Detach the front door of the enclosure. 3. Slide the 2.5’’ SATA hard disk into the drive bay. 4. Make sure that the SATA drives are seated correctl y on the SATA connectors of the enclosure . 5. Screw back the front door of the enclosure. 6. Tighten[...]

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    How to Configure Raid Raid Setting Table How to Build Raid JBOD a. Setup Raid mode JBOD using RAID sele ction switch b. USB Connection Plug in mini USB data cable & USB power cable as shown. c. Plug the other end of the mini USB data cable & USB power cable to USB ports on your system. Note: Due to the diff erent layouts of Laptops, we sugg[...]

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    g. Select “Disk Management” . h. Disk Management shows the hard disks that are “Unalloc ated” i. Place cursor on Disk 1, do a right click then select “Initialize Disk ” j. Press ”OK” k. Refer to steps i & j to initialize Disk 2[...]

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    l. Hard disks will become “Online” m. Place cursor on Unallocated portion and select “New Partition” n. Choose ”Next” o. Choose ”Next” again. p. Set up partition size and click “Next” q. Tick “Quick format” and click ”Next”[...]

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    r. Click ”Finish” s. Disk Management shows system is “Formatting” t. When for mat is finish , it shows the drive as “Healthy” u. Format the other hard disk by referring to steps m ~ r. v. When the drive has been formatted, “My Computer” will show two Physical hard disks[...]

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    How to build Raid : BIG(Span) Se t the DI P switch as above and Refer to Step b ~ v to bui ld the Raid BIG(Span) mode. This time you can see only 1 hard disk only(see following two pictures.) How to build Raid : SAFE50 Set the DIP switch as foll owing and Refer to Step b ~ v to build the Raid SAFE50 mode. This time you can see 2 hard disks ( one is[...]

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    Trouble shooting A Can only see “8GB Unallocated” Possible reasons are: A- 1 You did not install any hard dis k. A- 2 During initial installation you forgot to press “RAID Setting” button once. A- 3 You have change the Raid mode but forgot to press “RAID Setting” button once. B Show wrong hard disk capacity or wrong hard disk numbers B-[...]