Setting Up As Raid-0 (2 Hard Drives Striped For Performance) - OWC Mercury Rack Pro 4 Bay Storage Enclosure Owner's Manual

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The maximum volume size will automatically be prompted in
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the box at the bottom. If you wish to adjust the size smaller, you
can do so. In this demonstration we will use a maximum size volume.
Click Next when you are ready.
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Choose a new drive letter for the volume. It will
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automatically prompt an unused volume letter. Click Next
when you are ready.
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
Rack Pro, you would have 2 2TB volumes mount on your desktop.
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(IMPORTANT) Realize that reconfiguring your RAID will destroy
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all data on this storage enclosure. Be sure you have a backup
before proceeding. Make sure that the power is turned off.
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Look at the back of the OWC Mercury Rack Pro and locate the
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switches to the right of the USB port. Make sure they are both
on the "RAID 0" position (RIGHT).
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Choose the connection method you desire (USB, FireWire 800),
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and power on the OWC Mercury Rack Pro enclosure. You will
see these dialog boxes pop up. Click on "Initialize".
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