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 FRONT VIEW 1.4.1 LED Indicators 1.5 REAR VIEW 1.5.1 Rear Features 1.5.2 Connectivity Notes 2. SYSTEM SETUP..............................................................................................4 2.1 QUICK START 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: Mac OS X 10.2 or later • USB 3.0: Mac OS X 10.6 or later • Thunderbolt™ port: Mac OS X 10.6 or later • 500MHz Intel® Pentium® 3 CPU, 128MB RAM • USB 2.0: Windows XP or later • USB 3.0: Windows XP or later • Thunderbolt™ port: Windows 7 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.
1.4 FRONT VIEW 1.4.1 LED Indicators Power — This LED will emit a solid blue light when the Mercury Elite Pro Dual is on. During drive activity the LED will blink blue steadily, and during a rebuild the LED will pulse blue slowly. Power HDD1 HDD2 HDD1/HDD2 — These LEDs represent the two hard disk drives (HDDs) inside the Mercury Elite Pro Dual. During normal activity, these LEDs will remain off.
1.5.1 Rear Features 1. USB 3.0 port — Attach the included USB 3.0 (Standard-A to Standard-B) cable here. 2. Confirm button — Press this button to confirm a newly selected RAID mode. 3. RAID dial — Adjust the position of the dial to change to a new RAID mode. 4. Thunderbolt ports — Attach the included Thunderbolt cable to one of these ports and to your computer, or to another Thunderbolt device. Use the other Thunderbolt port to add more Thunderbolt devices to the chain. 5.
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 Mac 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 right. 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. Install the lower hard drive (HDD2), as shown below. Slide the SATA connector on the hard drive into the black SATA connector circled in red. Make sure the drive is firmly seated in the black SATA connector before proceeding. 5. Install the upper hard drive (HDD1), as shown below. Insert the SATA power and SATA data cables from the Mercury Elite Pro Dual into the SATA connector on the hard drive, then slide the hard drive to line up the screw holes in the hard drive with those on the inner chassis.
6. Using eight of the larger screws from the packet you removed from the inner chassis, fasten the hard drives into the inner chassis. There are four screw holes on each side of the inner chassis, as circled below in red. 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.
8. Once you have determined the correct orientation, slide the inner chassis back into the outer enclosure, as shown to the left. 9. Once the front grill of the inner chassis sits flush with the edge of the outer enclosure, turn the Mercury Elite Pro Dual on its side again to look at the screw holes on the bottom. You should be able to see that the screw holes in the outer enclosure line up with the screw holes in the inner chassis.
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 3.4 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 a dial on the rear of the unit, as shown below. The dial has four positions, each labeled with a different RAID mode. In order to change the RAID mode, simply follow these steps: 1.
is a limitation of the operating systems’ support for the SATA chipset in the Mercury Elite Pro Dual. Independent drive mode does not have this limitation when used over USB. Span Mode: The drives show up as one large single volume. The total size will depend on the drives installed; you can use drives of different capacities. A span is a configuration (not RAID) in which the data is written sequentially across the drives.
cables (see Section 2.2, step 5). NOTE: The failed drive must be replaced with a drive of identical model and capacity if being used in a RAID 0 or RAID 1. If the Mercury Elite Pro Dual is set up as a span or as a RAID 0, the array must be reformatted before it can be used again. If the Mercury Elite Pro Dual is set up in independent drive mode, you do not need to reformat the existing drive or the new drive.
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 UNMOUNTING DRIVES To properly unmount any connected drives from your computer, you need to follow a few simple steps. For Mac OS X systems: There are several methods to umount disks with Mac OS X systems.
3.4 ABOUT DATA BACKUP To ensure that your files are protected and to prevent data loss, we strongly suggest that you keep two copies of your data: one copy on your Mercury Elite Pro Dual and a second copy on either your internal drive or another storage medium, such as an optical backup, or on another external storage unit.
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