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OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS User Manual & Owners Manual

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  • Page 1: Owners Manual

    User Guide & Owners Manual...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 1.1.1 Mac Requirements 1.1.2 PC Requirements 1.1.3 Supported Hard Drives 1.2 PACKAGE CONTENTS 1.3 ABOUT THIS MANUAL 1.4 REAR VIEW & CABLE CONNECTIONS 1.5 FRONT VIEW & LED INDICATORS 1.5.1 LED Indicators...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 1 - Introduction 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 System Requirements 1.1.1 Mac Requirements Dependent on the interface card you purchase to use with this solution. Please check the specifications of the controller card to determine system requirements.

  • Page 5: Rear View & Cable Connections

    External mini-SAS Port Cable Connections: 1. Plug the power cable into the wall and into the OWC Mercury Rack Pro. 2. Verify that the voltage switch is set properly for your country. 3. Connect your external mini-SAS cable to your external mini-SAS controller card.

  • Page 6: Raid Modes

    Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.6 RAID Modes The OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS does not have any RAID functions built in; however most RAID cards you will choose to use with the OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS will. These definitions of different RAID modes are provided to help you decide which mode is best for you to use.

  • Page 7: Disk Mirroring With Striping (Raid 10)

    OWC Mercury Rack 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 volume, but only 50% of the total capacity can be used, depending on the drive with the smallest capacity. RAID 10 creates an exact copy (or “mirror”) of a set of data but also uses a RAID 0 Stripe for speed.

  • Page 8: System Setup

    OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 2 - System Setup 2 SYSTEM SETUP 2.1 Drive Installation NOTE: If you purchased a preconfigured solution with drives, they will be numbered for proper installation in individual drive bays. Please match the drive bay numbers to the hard drives and their trays.

  • Page 9: Replacing Hard Drives

    - check your controller card manual to confirm this. You may be able to leave the RAID powered on. 2. After replacing the defective drive, power on the OWC Mercury Rack Pro (if neces- sary). 3. Using the RAID controller card managment software, follow the instructions there or within the RAID controller card manual to proceed with the rebuild process.

  • Page 10: Connections To Computer

    3. Connect the mini-SAS port to your controller card. If sold as a preconfigured solution, your OWC Mercury Rack Pro is preset as a RAID 5, using the “Mac OS Extended” format and is ready to use. If you want to change this configuration, please follow the instructions in Chapter 3 to do so.

  • Page 11: Converting To Desktop Unit

    To remove the rack pulls, simply remove the 4 Phillips screws on the side of the rack and the rack pull will come off. Once you have removed the rack pulls, turn the OWC Mercury Rack Pro over and at- tach the 4 rubber feet using a Phillips scredriver to the bottom of the enclsure.

  • Page 12: Formatting

    ➀ Click on the “Initialize” button. ➁ 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.
  • Page 13 OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 3 - Formatting ➂ Once you’ve selected the OWC device, you will notice the above change in the Disk Utility application. Click on the “Partition” tab in this picture. ➃ You then need to choose how many partitions you wish your OWC Mercury Rack Pro to have.
  • Page 14 Choose a name for the volume. You will need to repeat this step for each volume if you selected multiple partitions. Click Apply to finish. ➅ After a few moments, partitioning will complete and the OWC Mercury Rack Pro volume will mount on your desktop. You can quit Disk Utility, you’re all set!
  • Page 15 Only for XP, 2000, ME and earlier. (XP 64-BIT, Vista & Windows 7 can continue to the next section) If you purchased a preconfigured solution from OWC, it comes preformatted using the Mac OS HFS+ file system on a GUID drive partition. Unfortunately, this is not readable by Windows without special software.
  • Page 16 OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 3 - Formatting 3.3 Formatting your OWC Mercury Rack Pro on Windows 2000 and later Instructions for other operating systems can be found at http://www.macsales.com/format. ➀ With the drive connected to the computer and powered on, right click on the “My Computer”...
  • Page 17 OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 3 - Formatting 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.”...
  • Page 18 OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 3 - Formatting ➇ If you like, you can specify the drive letter designation for your new drive. Otherwise, one will automatically be assigned. Click “Next. ” ➈ Before you can use the drive, it must be format- ted.
  • Page 19 OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 3 - Formatting ➀➀ Once you have finished with the formatting wizard, you will see that your new drive (repre- sented as “Disk E” in this case) will display a message of “For- matting. ” This should...
  • Page 20 OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 3 - Formatting ➀➂ At this point, you may close the Computer Management window. Your drive is ready to use and can be found in “My Computer. ” Using your new Storage Solution on both Macs and PCs? MacDrive takes the guesswork out of sharing files.

  • Page 21: Troubleshooting & Tips

    2. A message will appear, detailing the devices that the Eject icon controls. i.e. “Safely remove... ” Click on this prompt. 3. You will then be given the following message. “Safe to Remove Hardware”. It is now safe to disconnect the OWC Mercury Rack Pro.

  • Page 22: Appendix

    To ensure that your files are protected and to prevent the loss of your data, we strongly suggest that you keep two copies of your data: One copy on your OWC Mercury Rack Pro and a second copy on either your internal hard drive or another storage medium, such as an optical backup, or on a second external hard drive.

  • Page 23: Customer Service

    OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS Chapter 6 - Customer Service 6 CUSTOMER SERVICE 6.1 Before Contacting Customer Service •Read this manual and review Chapter 4: Troubleshooting & Tips. •Visit our tech center for more support suggestions, including FAQs. http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center If you still need support, please have the following available to you: •...
  • Page 24 Copyrights: Copyright © 2009-11 Other World Computing, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of Other World Computing.

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