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  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents YSTEM EQUIREMENTS 1.1.1 PC R EQUIREMENTS 1.1.2 EQUIREMENTS 1.1.3 UPPORTED RIVES ACKAGE ONTENTS BOUT THIS ANUAL ETAILED 1.4.1 LED I NDICATION 1.4.2 RAID S ELECTOR WITCH 1.4.3 MART 1.4.4 UZZER RAID M ODES 1.5.1 PANNING 1.5.2 (RAID 0) TRIPING 1.5.3 (RAID 1)

  • Page 4: System Requirements

    Up to four 3.5" SATA-I or SATA-II hard drives (1.5Gb/s or 3.0Gb/s) 20GB - 1.5TB per HDD Hard drives of identical capacities are recommended 1.2 Package Contents Package content may vary depending on vendor & version. EliteRAID ER104CT (no hard drives included) Power cord Interface cables Manual 1.3 About this Manual Firmware, images and descriptions may slightly vary between this manual and the actual product you have.

  • Page 5: Detailed View

    EliteRAID ER104CT User Guide 1.4 Detailed View 1.4.1 LED Indication Status OFF = Power off Power When only 2 or 3 hard Blue = Power on drives are installed, the Blinking orange = Rebuilding RAID array Rebuild red LED indication for...

  • Page 6: Smart Fan

    EliteRAID ER104CT User Guide 1.4.3 Smart Fan The smart fan automatically regulates the fan speed according to the internal temperature. It will start using low speed from 45 degrees, increase the speed every 5 degrees until 60 degrees and then use full speed above 61 degrees Celsius.

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

    EliteRAID ER104CT User Guide 1.5.4 Disk Mirroring with Striping (RAID 10) The drives show up as one volume but only 50% of the total capacity, depending on the drive with the smallest capacity, can be used. RAID 1 creates an exact copy (or mirror) of a set of data.

  • Page 8: Hard Drive Assembly

    EliteRAID ER104CT User Guide 2 System Setup 2.1 Hard Drive Assembly The drives can be installed at any position, there is no specific order required. 1. Push the front panel of the drive cassette and release it. Grab the cassette and pull it out of the rack-mount chassis.

  • Page 9: Replacing Hard Drives

    EliteRAID ER104CT User Guide 2.2 Replacing Hard Drives When one of the drives fails, the Rebuild LED will light up orange and the corresponding HDD LED will light up red. If only one drive is defective and the RAID mode is set to RAID 1, RAID 5 or RAID 10, the data can still be accessed but we strongly recommend replacing the faulty drive immediately to assure continued backup and data safety.

  • Page 10: Faq

    EliteRAID ER104CT User Guide 3 Appendix 3.1 FAQ Q: What file system should I choose to format my drive? A: This will depend on how you want to use the drive but in general, we recommend: Windows 2000/XP/Vista NTFS Mac OS X...

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