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Manual OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2

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    U ser Guide & O wners Manual ...

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    OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 T able of Cont ents 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 SY STEM REQUIREMENTS 1.1.1 Mac Requirements 1.1.2 PC Requirements 1.1.3 Supported Hard Drives 1.2 P A CKAGE C ONTENTS 1.3 ABOUT THIS MANUAL 1.4 PORT VIE W & CABLE CONNECTIONS 1.5 DET AILED VIEW 1.5.1 LED Indication & Buttons 1.5.2 RAID Selector Switch 1.5.3 Smart Fan 1.5.4 ...

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    1.1 System Requir ements 1.1.1 Mac Requirements •Minimum Pow erPC G4 Pr ocessor , 128MB RAM •eSA T A interface, Mac OS X 10.3 or later (OR) •F ireWir e inter face, Mac OS X 10.2 or later (OR) •USB 2.0 interface, Mac OS X 10.2 or later 1.1.2 PC Requirements •Minimum 500MHz I ntel P entium 3 Pr ocessor , 128MB R AM •eSA T A interface, Win ...

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    1.4 P or t View Cable Connections: Attachment of the cables is simple on an y platform. 1 . Plug the power input c ord into the wall and t o the OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2. 2 . Connect the eSA T A, F ireW ire 800, F ireWire 400, or USB 2.0 cable - appropriat e for the interface your computer supports, into the drive and computer . For best perfo ...

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    OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.5 RAID Congur ation 1.5.1 LED Indicators & Buttons 1.5.2 RAID Selec tor Switch ! When only 2 or 3 hard drives are installed, the red LED lights indicate missing hard drives and can be safely ignored. ! Changing the RAID mode will require you to reformat the hard drives. Be sure to back ...

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    OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.5.3 Smart Fan The OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Q x2 utilizes a smart fan which automatically regulates the fan speed according t o internal temperatur es. It starts at low speed, gradually increasing fan speed up to maximum when int ernal temperatures r each 140 degrees F ahrenheit. 1.5.4 Buzzer ...

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    OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.6.4 Disk Mirroring with Striping (RAID 10) (also known as RAID 1+0) (4 Drives) The drives show up as one v olume, but only 50% of the total capacity can be used, depending on the drive with the smallest capacity . R AID 10 creates an e xact copy (or “mirr or ”) of a set of data but also u ...

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    OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 2 - Syst em Setup 2.1 Hard Drive A ssembly The hard drives can be installed a t any position, there is no specic or der requir ed. If you ’ re only going to use 2 hard drives to beg in, insert them in the rst 2 slots, A & B. 2 SY STEM SE TUP ➀ ➁ ➂ ➇ ➅ ➄ ➃ ➆ ➀ Inser t the key into t ...

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    OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 2 - Syst em Setup 2.2 Replacing Hard Drives When one of the hard drives fails , the Rebuild LED will light up orange and the corre - sponding HDD LED will light up or ash red. If only one drive is def ec tive and the RAID mode is set to RAID 1, RAID 5, or RAID 10, the data can still be accessed but it is re ...

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    OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 3 - F ormatting 3 FORMA TTING 3.1 F ormatting y our Qx2 on a Macint osh with Mac OS X Click on the “Initialize ” button. 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. ➀ ➁ IMPORT ANT NO TE: T ...

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    Once you ’ve selected the OWC device, y ou will notice the above change in the Disk Utility application. Click on the “P ar tition ” tab in this picture. Y ou then need to choose how man y partitions you wish your Qx2 to have . For ease of use w e ’ re selecting one par tition here but of course you could select more if y ou wish to hav e m ...

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    Choose a name for the v olume. Y ou will need to repeat this step f or each volume if you selected multiple partitions. Click Apply to nish. ➄ ➅ After a few moments , par titioning will complete and the OWC Mercur y Elite Qx2 v olume will mount on your desktop . Y ou can quit Disk Utility, you ’ re all set! OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Ch ...

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    OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 3 - F ormatting 3.2 Removing the GUID P artition S cheme Only for XP , 2000, ME and earlier. (XP 64-BIT , Vista & Windows 7 can continue to the ne xt section) ➆ T ype exit and hit enter . ➇ Close the command prompt window . Y ou may no w proceed with f ormatting the drive . W ARNING: The clean command w ...

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    OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 3 - F ormatting 3.3 F ormatting y our Qx2 on W indows 2000 and lat er Instructions for other operating systems can be found at h ttp://www.macsales.com/f or mat . ➀ With the driv e connected to the computer and power ed on, right click on the “My Comput er ” icon and select “Manage” from the menu. The ...

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    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.” ➄ The “New P ar tition Wizar d” will launch. Click “Next ” to continue . ➅ Specify your partition t ype as “Primary , ” and click “Ne xt. ” ...

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    ➇ If you like, y ou can specify the drive letter designa tion for y our new drive. Other wise, one will automatically be assigned . Click “Nex t. ” ➈ Before y ou can use the drive, it must be f or mat - ted. On most sy stems running Windo ws 2000 or later , it is advisable to specify the le system as NTFS. Lea ve the Allocation unit size ...

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    ➀➀ Once you have nished with the formatting wizar d, you will see that y our new drive (repr e - sented as “Disk E” in this case) will display a message of “F or - matting. ” This should only take a couple of minutes if you chose the quick format op- tion. ➀➁ After a mo - ment or two , the drive ’ s status will change from “F ...

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    Using y our new Stor age Solution on both Macs and PCs? MacDrive takes the guesswork out of sharing les. Whether you ar e trans - ferring les between home and the oce, a class room lab and your dorm room or even on the same computer , MacDrive makes it painless . In fact, you ’ll hardly know MacDrive is w ork ing. Once installed M acDriv ...

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    OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 4 - T roubleshooting & Tips 4 TROUBLESHOO TING & TIPS 4.1 T roubleshooting Some of the most simple problems can be traced to po wer , or connectivity issues. Begin your troubleshooting b y verifying that pow er is plugged into the external stor- age solution, and if connected to a power strip . Make sur ...

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    OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 5 - Appendix 5.1 F AQ Q: How do I format m y storage solution? A: OWC has detailed instructions online for most popular operating systems , located at: http://www.macsales.com/format Q: What le system should I choose when formatting m y drive? A: This will depend on how you want to use the driv e, but in gen ...

  • OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 - page 21

    •Read this manual and review Chapter 4: T roubleshooting & Tips. •T r y to conrm the problem is with the hard driv e. If you hav e a second computer , move the enclosur e to that system and v erify that the solution does not function with that machine. •Visit our tech c enter for mor e suppor t suggestions, including F AQs. http://esho ...

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    Copyright ®2009 Other W orld Computing All Rights Reserved. Other World Computing ’ s Limited W arranty is not transferable and subject to limitations. Copyrights: Copyright © 2009-10 Other W orld Computing, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, st ored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in an y form or by ...

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