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- Page 1 SAT3540ER2 Instruction Manual SATA Hard Drive Enclosure 3.5” 4 Drive eSATA RAID External Hard Drive Enclosure with Controller Card Manual Revision:06/28/2010 For the most up-to-date information, please visit www.startech.com...
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Page 2: Fcc Compliance Statement
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Introduction ..............1 Packaging Contents..............1 System Requirements ..............1 Front View ..................2 Rear View ..................2 Installation ............... 3 Enclosure Installation ..............3 Driver Installation .................4 Controller Card Installation ............4 Driver Installation .................5 How to Use ..............6 Software Installation ..............6 RAID Levels .................12 Specifications .............. -
Page 4: Introduction
Introduction The SAT3540ER2 delivers a high performance external RAID solution that lets you install up to four SATA hard drives for connection to the host computer through eSATA. With support for up to four 2TB SATA hard drives, the enclosure features individual removable drive trays that make hot swapping or interchanging failed or extra hard drives easy. -
Page 5: Front View
Front View Disk Activity LED Tray Release Disk Link LED button Power button Power Ready Error eSATA Link LED eSATA Activity Rear View DC Power connector Reset button eSATA port Fan ON/OFF 80mm cooling switch... -
Page 6: Installation
Installation WARNING: Hard drives require careful handling, especially when being transported. If you are not careful with your hard disk, lost data may result. Always handle your hard drive and storage device with caution. Enclosure Installation 1. Remove the drive trays from the enclosure, by pressing the release button, then pushing down on the arms to eject them and slide the trays out. -
Page 7: Driver Installation
Be sure that you are properly grounded before opening your computer case or touching your PCI Express card. StarTech.com recommends that you wear an anti-static strap when installing any computer component. If an anti-static strap... -
Page 8: Driver Installation
Driver Installation Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 1. When the Found New Hardware wizard appears on the screen, insert the Driver CD into your CD/DVD drive. If you are prompted to connect to Windows Update, please select the “No, not this time” option and click Next. -
Page 9: How To Use
How to Use Software Installation 1. Insert the included installation CD into your CD/DVD drive. 2. Double-click the Setup program to begin the installation procedure. 3. The Installation Wizard start screen appears. Click Install to continue. 4. Wait for the installation process to complete. 5. - Page 10 Basic Mode Basic mode is aimed at providing users with disk and RAID array information, an event log, as well as perform the basic configurations on the connected hard drives. RAID and Disk Information This section consists of two parts. The left side is a tree which shows all controllers on the system and their connected RAID units and hard drives in a hierarchy view.
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Page 11: Controller Information
Controller Information If a Controller item is selected from the tree view, it will display the model name and capacity of any RAID units and hard drives connected to the controller. For RAID member disks, the hard drive charts on the right side will be shown with different colors according to the different RAID level. - Page 12 Event Log Viewer The RAID Manager will monitor the status of all connected hard drives and RAID units and keep records of the occurrence of events. All events can be viewed through this event log viewer page. Logs can be saved to a profile by pressing the “Save to Profile”...
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Page 13: Advanced Raid Configuration
press the “Apply” button to confirm the configuration or press the “Cancel” button to restore to the original configuration. After the user confirms to apply the configuration, it will pop up another progress window to show the configuration status. After the RAID configuration finishes, it will pop up a message dialog to tell that a RAID is newly created or a RAID has been deleted. - Page 14 any remaining hard drives. The RAID array size can be modified by simply clicking the specified disk chart and adjusting the disk size with the slider at the bottom. The RAID array can be deleted by checking the “Delete RAID” check box. If the deleted RAID array is password protected, the password prompt will automatically open.
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Page 15: Raid Levels
RAID Levels Creates a standard RAID 1 mirrored array, and then uses an extra hard drive Clone (RAID 1 + Spare) as a spare, in case of failure of one of the disks in the RAID 1. Spanning concatenates (joins) multiple hard drives into a single large disk. -
Page 16: Specifications
Specifications Bus Interface SATA 3.0Gb/s Number of Drive Bays Enclosure: JMicron JMB393 Chipset ID Controller Card: Silicon Image SiI3531 External Connectors 1 x eSATA* Power, Ready, Error, eSATA Link, eSATA Activity LEDs 4 x Hard Drive Link 4 x Hard Drive Activity Cooling Fan 1 x 80mm Maximum Data Transfer Rate... -
Page 17: Technical Support
Limitation of Liability In no event shall the liability of StarTech.com Ltd. and StarTech.com USA LLP (or their officers, directors, employees or agents) for any damages (whether direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental, consequential, or... - Page 18 StarTech.com has been making “hard-to-find easy” since 1985, providing high quality solutions to a diverse IT and A/V customer base that spans many channels, including government, education and industrial facilities to name just a few. We offer an unmatched selection of computer parts, cables, A/V products, KVM and Server...
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