Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 OWC
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U ser Guide & O wners Manual.
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.
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.
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 .
OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.5 RAID Congur 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.
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.
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 .
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 specic 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.
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.
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 .
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.
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 .
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 .
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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 oce, a class room lab and your dorm room or even on the same computer , MacDrive makes it painless .
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 .
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.
•Read this manual and review Chapter 4: T roubleshooting & Tips. •T r y to conrm 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.
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