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Sonnet FUSION F2QR User Manual

Portable 2-drive hardware raid sata storage system

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Portable 2-Drive Hardware RAID SATA Storage System
User's Guide
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  • Page 1 FUSION ™ Portable 2-Drive Hardware RAID SATA Storage System User’s Guide Windows...
  • Page 3 SPAN configurations without relying on a separate adapter card. performance, this rugged device is ideally suited for use in the Out of the box, the drives inside Fusion F2QR are unconfigured field or office. and unformatted. Continue reading to learn how to set the drive configuration to meet your needs.
  • Page 4 3 – Power Cable Socket 5 – eSATA Interface Port When you connect the Fusion F2QR to your computer using This port is compatible with standard eSATA data cables. an eSATA or USB cable, you must also provide power to the...
  • Page 5 F2QR link. and then format them (Mac OS Extended or NTFS, for example). 3. Locate and click the Driver link, then click the Fusion F2QR A. RAID Master Application Software Download and RAID Master (Windows) link, and then click the Download Installation Steps for Mac OS X Users Now button;...
  • Page 6 Indicates the current configuration of the drives in the Click to close the RAID Master application. Fusion F2QR (RAID 0, RAID 1, Span, JBOD), capacity for each drive or RAID group, and health for each drive or RAID 5 – Name/Firmware Version of the Selected Storage System group (healthy or degraded).
  • Page 7 Disk Utility application so you may format the drives for use with your computer (Figure 3). Go to the next page. If you are using the Fusion F2QR with a Windows computer, skip to page 7, Drive Formatting—Windows User’s Instructions.
  • Page 8 Formatting the drives will erase any data on them! If there is any data on them, back it up before proceeding. 1. In the Disk Utility window, the RAID group will appear as a single volume. Select the Fusion F2QR volume in the pane on the left, and then click the Partition tab on the right (Figure 4). Support Note: If you have selected JBOD configuration for the Fusion F2QR’s drives, two F2QR volumes will appear in the Disk...
  • Page 9 3. If you are using Windows Vista, an Initialize Disk window will appear; skip to step 4. If you are using Windows 7, XP, Server 2008 or 2003, when the disks are displayed, the Fusion F2QR’s drives will appear as a single volume when configured as RAID 0, RAID 1, or Span (or as two drives if configured as JBOD), and listed as “unallocated”.
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