OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual ASSEMBLY MANUAL & USER GUIDE
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION............................................................................................1 1.1 MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 1.1.1 Apple® Mac Requirements 1.1.2 PC Requirements 1.1.3 Supported Drives 1.2 PACKAGE CONTENTS 1.3 ABOUT THIS MANUAL 1.4 LED INDICATOR 1.5 REAR VIEW 1.5.1 Rear Features 1.5.2 Connectivity Notes 2. SYSTEM SETUP..............................................................................................3 2.1 QUICK START 2.2 ASSEMBLY 2.
INTRODUCTION 1.1 MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 1.1.1 Apple® Mac Requirements 1.1.2 PC Requirements • PowerPC G4 CPU, 128MB RAM • USB 2.0: OS X 10.2 or later • USB 3.0: OS X 10.6 or later • FireWire 800: OS X 10.2 or later • 500MHz Intel® Pentium® 3 CPU, 128MB RAM • USB 2.0: Windows XP or later • USB 3.0: Windows XP or later • FireWire 800: Windows XP or later 1.1.3 Supported Drives • 3.5” SATA hard drives NOTE: Drives of identical model and capacity are required for RAID 0 and RAID 1. 1.
1.4 LED INDICATOR The Mercury Elite Pro Dual has a blue LED on the front grill. This LED will illuminate when the Mercury Elite Pro Dual is powered on, and the LED will flash with drive activity. Note that there are no individual LED indicators for the hard drives inside the Mercury Elite Pro Dual, only one LED for the entire unit. 1.5 REAR VIEW 5 4 1 2 3 1.5.1 Rear Features 1. USB 3.0 port — Attach the included USB 3.0 (Standard-A to Standard-B) cable here. 2.
SYSTEM SETUP 2.1 QUICK START If you purchased the Mercury Elite Pro Dual as an empty enclosure, proceed to Section 2.2, Assembly. If you purchased the Mercury Elite Pro Dual with drives already installed, the OWC Drive Guide formatting utility has been installed on your Mercury Elite Pro Dual. Follow these steps to use the OWC Drive Guide to format your Mercury Elite Pro Dual for OS X (10.4 and later) or Windows (XP and later). 1.
2. Once the two screws have been removed, slide the inner chassis out of the front of the outer enclosure, as shown to the left. Start by pushing on the rear of the inner chassis, then when you are able to get a grip on the front grill of the inner chassis, pull it the rest of the way. 3. When removed from the outer enclosure, the inner chassis will appear as shown below. Remove the packet of screws and use the screws as directed later in the assembly instructions. 4.
5. Install the upper hard drive, as shown below. Twist the black SATA connector counterclockwise so that the red data cable crosses over the top of the smaller yellow, red, and black power cables, as circled to the lower left. This ensures that the cables will not come into contact with the fan during operation.
7. Note that while the inner chassis can slide into both sides of the outer enclosure, there is only one correct way that will allow the screw holes to line up correctly. To determine the correct orientation of the outer enclosure with the inner chassis, turn the outer enclosure on its side and look at the bottom. As shown below, the screw holes at the front of the outer enclosure are close to the silicone feet. The screw holes at the rear of the outer enclosure are farther away from the silicone feet.
2.3 RAID SETTINGS ! ! WARNING: Changing the RAID mode will destroy the data on the drives. Be sure to back up your data first! See section 3.3 for information on proper backup strategies. 2.3.1 Changing the RAID Mode The RAID mode on the Mercury Elite Pro Dual is controlled by three switches inside the unit, as shown below. You can access the switches by removing the clip-in fan at the rear of the enclosure.
RAID 1 “Drive Mirroring” Mode: The drives show up as one volume with a size equal to the capacity of one of the two drives used in the array. RAID 1 copies (or “mirrors”) a set of data from the first drive to the second drive. This is useful when reliability and redundancy are more important than capacity. When one drive fails, it can be replaced and the data will be rebuilt automatically. RAID 1 is NOT RECOMMENDED in the Mercury Elite Pro Dual due to the lack of any indication of a drive failure.
APPENDIX 3.1 FORMATTING For formatting information, including instructions on how to format your Mercury Elite Pro Dual for Mac or Windows, go to: http://www.macsales.com/format 3.2 TROUBLESHOOTING Begin your troubleshooting by verifying that the power cable is connected to the Mercury Elite Pro Dual and to a power source. Then, verify that both ends of your cables are properly plugged into the computer and the Mercury Elite Pro Dual.
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