Setting Up As Raid-0 (2 Hard Drives Striped For Performance) - OWC Mercury Elite RAID Owner's Manual

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Setup your OWC Mercury Elite 4 Bay RAID Rack as a
RAID-0 (2 striped hard drives) on a Macintosh
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.
1
(IMPORTANT) Realize that reconfiguring your RAID will destroy
Step
all data on this storage enclosure. Be sure you have a backup
before proceeding. Make sure that the power is turned off.
2
Look at the back of the OWC Mercury Elite 4 Bay RAID Rack and
Step
locate the switches to the right of the USB port. Make sure they
are both on the "RAID 0" position (RIGHT).
3
Choose the connection method you desire (USB, FireWire 800),
Step
and power on the OWC Mercury Elite 4 Bay RAID Rack enclo-
sure. You will see these dialog boxes pop up. Click on "Initialize".
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