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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS T able of Cont ents 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 SY STEM REQUIREMENTS 1.1.1 Mac Requirements 1.1.2 PC Requirements 1.1.3 Supported Hard Drives 1.2 P A CKAGE C ONTENTS 1.3 ABOUT THIS MANUAL 1.4 REAR VIE W & CABLE CONNECTIONS 1.5 FRONT VIEW & LED INDIC A T ORS 1.5.1 LED Indicators 1.6 RAID MODES 1.6.1 Combine 1.6.2 Disk S[...]
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1.1 System Requir ements 1.1.1 Mac Requirements Dependent on the interface card you purchase to use with this solution. P lease check the specications of the controller car d to determine system requirements . 1.1.2 PC Requirements Dependent on the interface card you purchase to use with this solution. P lease check the specications of the co[...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.5.1 LED Indicators P ow er Input V oltage Switch External mini-SAS Port Cable Connections: 1 . Plug the power cable in to the wall and into the OWC Mercury Rack Pro . 2 . Verify that the voltage swit ch is set properly for y our country . 3 . Connect your external mini-SAS cable to your exte[...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro SAS Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.6 RAID Modes The OW C Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS does not have an y R AID functions built in; howe ver most RAID cards y ou will choose to use with the OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS will. These denitions of dieren t RAID modes are provided to help y ou decide which mode is best for you to us[...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.6.4 Disk Mirroring with Striping (RAID 10) (also known as RAID 1+0) The drives show up as one v olume, but only 50% of the total capacity can be used, depending on the drive with the smallest capacity . R AID 10 creates an e xact copy (or “mirr or ”) of a set of data but also uses a RAID[...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 2 - Syst em Setup 2.1 Drive Installation NO TE: If you purchased a prec ongured solution with drives , they will be numbered for proper installa tion in individual drive bays . Please match the drive ba y numbers to the hard drives and their tra ys. T o install your own driv e mechanisms: 1. Open the front [...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 2 - Syst em Setup 2.2 Replacing Drives If one of the drives fail, the corresponding activity LED will light up solid red If only one drive is defec- tive and your c ontroller card’ s RAID mode is set to RAID 1, RAID 3, RAID 5, or RAID 10, the data can still be accessed, but we strongly suggest that you repla[...]
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2.3 Connections to C omputer 1 . Plug the power cable in to the wall and into the OWC Mercury Rack Pro . 2. V er ify the voltage switch is set pr operly for the country you reside in. 3 . Connect the mini-SAS por t to your con troller card . If sold as a precongured solution, your OW C Mercury Rack Pro is preset as a RAID 5, using the “Mac OS [...]
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2.4 Con verting to Desktop Unit The OWC Mercury R ack Pr o can be conv erted from a rack mounting enclosure to a desktop unit by remo ving the rack pulls from the sides of the enclosur e, and attaching the included rubber feet to the enclosur e. T o remove the rack pulls , simply remov e the 4 Phillips screws on the side of the rack and the rack pu[...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 3 - F ormatting 3 FORMA T TING 3.1 F ormatting y our OWC Mer cury R ack Pro on a Macint osh with Mac OS X Click on the “I nitialize ” button. Select the device with no volumes attached to it; in this picture, that would be the 4 TB OWC device . Click on the picture of the drive icon next to the text. ➀ ?[...]
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Once you ’ve selected the OWC device, y ou will notice the above change in the Disk Utility application. Click on the “P artition” tab in this picture. Y ou then need to choose how man y par titions you wish your OWC Mercur y Rack Pro t o have . For ease of use w e ’ re selecting one par tition here but of course y ou could select more if y[...]
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Choose a name for the v olume. Y ou will need to repeat this step f or each volume if you selected multiple partitions. Click Apply to nish. ➄ ➅ After a few moments , par titioning will complete and the OWC Mercur y Rack Pro v olume will mount on your deskt op . Y ou can quit Disk Utility , you ’ re all set! OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS [...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 3 - F ormatting 3.2 Removing the GUID P artition S cheme Only for XP , 2000, ME and earlier . (XP 64-BIT, Vista & Windows 7 can continue to the next section) ➆ T ype exit and hit enter . ➇ Close the command prompt window . Y ou may now proceed with forma tting the drive . W ARNING: The clean command wi[...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 3 - F ormatting 3.3 F ormatting y our OWC Mer cury R ack Pro on W indows 2000 and later Instructions for other operating systems can be found at h ttp://www.macsales.com/f or mat . ➀ With the driv e connected to the computer and power ed on, right click on the “My Computer ” icon and select “Manage” [...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 3 - F ormatting ➃ Your drive will appear similar to how Disk 1 does below. Notice that the space on the lower right reads as “Unallo - cated.” Right click in this space and choose “New Partition.” ➄ The “New Partition Wizar d” will launch. Click “Next ” to continue. ➅ Specify your partiti[...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 3 - F ormatting ➇ If you like, y ou can specify the drive letter designa tion for y our new drive. Other wise, one will automatically be assigned . Click “Nex t. ” ➈ Before y ou can use the drive, it must be f or mat - ted. On most sy stems running Windo ws 2000 or later , it is advisable to specify th[...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 3 - F ormatting ➀➀ Once you have nished with the formatting wizar d, you will see that y our new drive (repr e - sented as “Disk E” in this case) will display a message of “For - matting. ” This should only take a couple of minutes if you chose the quick format op- tion. ➀➁ After a mo - ment[...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 3 - F ormatting Using y our new Stor age Solution on both Macs and PCs? MacDrive takes the guesswork out of sharing les. Whether you ar e trans - ferring les between home and the oce, a class room lab and your dorm room or even on the same computer , MacDrive makes it painless. In fact, you ’ll hard[...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 4 - T roubleshooting & Tips 4 TROUBLESHOO TING & TIPS 4.1 T roubleshooting Some of the most simple problems can be traced to po wer , or connec tivity issues. Begin your troubleshooting b y verifying that pow er is plugged into the external stor - age solution, and if connected to a power strip . Make [...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 5 - Appendix 5.1 F AQ Q: How do I format m y storage solution? A: OWC has detailed instructions online for most popular operating systems , located at: http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/formatting.cfm Q: What le system should I choose when formatting m y drive? A: This will depend on how you want to use[...]
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OWC Mercury R ack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 6 - Customer Service •Read this manual and review Chapter 4: T roubleshooting & Tips. •Visit our tech c enter for mor e suppor t suggestions, including F AQs. http://eshop .macsales.com/tech_cen ter If you still need support, please have the f ollowing av ailable to you: • The serial number of the en[...]
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