Using With A Macintosh - OWC Mercury Elite RAID Owner's Manual

Using your OWC Mercury Elite 4 bay RAID Rack with a
Macintosh Computer
(If you are using a PC; please turn to page # 17
Chapter 5
Once you have decided on the proper way to connect the OWC Mercury
Elite 4 Bay RAID Rack to your Macintosh, you're now ready to power the
unit on and begin using it. Do so now.
The OWC Mercury Elite 4 Bay RAID Rack comes from the factory pre
configured one of 3 ways. Please refer to your invoice to verify which
method of configuration you ordered if you do not know already.
The methods are:
JBOD - All 4 hard drives formatted independently, as four individual
hard drive volumes. If you had 4 1TB drives in your OWC Mercury Elite 4
Bay RAID Rack, you would have 4 1TB volumes mount on your desktop.
Stripe (RAID 0) - Two volumes will mount on your desktop, each made
up of a high-speed RAID-0 Stripe - combining two volumes each. Using
a RAID-0 Stripe format, if you had 4 1TB drives in your OWC Mercury
Elite 4 Bay RAID Rack, you would have 2 2TB volumes mount on your
desktop.
RAID 0+1 - This method is a bit different than the above two methods as
it uses a piece of software that is included with this bundle - SoftRAID.
SoftRAID combines two Stripe (RAID-0) volumes into a RAID-1 Mirror
- allowing both speed, and full redundancy. If you had 4 1TB drives in
your OWC Mercury Elite 4 Bay RAID Rack using this method, you would
have 1 2TB volume mount on your desktop.
Your solution should be configured properly to work the way that
you ordered it right out of the box. However, if you decide you want
to reconfigure or change the method you ordered, please see the
following pages to reformat or reconfigure your RAID.
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