FUSION D400QR5 ™ 4-Drive Serial ATA Disk Enclosure with Quad Interface User’s Guide For Windows
Fusion D400QR5 Specifications and Features Enclosure Specifications Drive Module (Bay 1) Drive Presence LED (Bay 1) Drive Activity/Fault LED (Bay 1) Drive Module (Bay 2) Drive Presence LED (Bay 2) Drive Activity/Fault LED (Bay 2) Drive Module (Bay 3) Drive Presence LED (Bay 3) Drive Activity/Fault LED (Bay 3) Drive Presence LED (Bay 4) Drive Module (Bay 4) Compatibility Compatible with Mac®, Windows®, and Linux® computers with compatible interface Interface Connectors eSATA, 2x FireWire 800, FireW
Safety Precautions and Disclaimers SAFETY PRECAUTIONS DISCLAIMERS Please read this section carefully before proceeding. These precautions explain the correct and safe use of this device, thereby helping to prevent injury to you or others, and also help you to minimize the risk of damaging the device. Drive Usage: Sonnet Technologies has qualified the hard drives listed below for use in Fusion D400QR5 storage systems.
Drive Installation and Enclosure Setup 1. Remove the Fusion disk enclosure and drive modules from their packaging, and place them near the computer to which the enclosure will be connected. WARNING: When handling computer products, take care to prevent components from being damaged by static electricity; avoid working in carpeted areas. Handle hard drives only by their edges and avoid touching connector traces and component pins. push in lever release button 2.
Drive Installation and Enclosure Setup Change Drive Configuration The drives included with Fusion D400QR5 are configured as a RAID 5 group and Mac OS Extended-formatted. If you need to change the configuration or set it up for use with an operating system other than Mac OS X, change the configuration of the D400QR5 drives following these steps. Detecting Disks –Re—Init? Detecting Disks waiting WARNING: Reconfiguring the drives in your Fusion D400QR5 enclosure requires you to reformat them.
Operating System Drive Formatting Instructions Mac OS Users’ Instructions 10. Depending on how you configured the RAID group, it may already be available to the system. Once the RAID group has been formatted and finishes building, it is ready to use. 1. Assuming your computer is turned on, after the Fusion D400QR5 configures the drives, a Disk Insertion window will appear stating that there is an unreadable volume; click Initialize, and then Disk Utility will open.
Menus View the RAID Mode Fusion QR5 v1.0 –Menu 1. Press the button under Menu on the display; RAID Mode appears (Figure 7). 2. Press the button under Go on the display; the RAID mode appears (Figure 7). RAID Mode –Next 3. Press the button under Quit on the display to return to the main menu (Figure 7). Go– RAID5 4D – Q uit Fusion QR5 v1.
Menus View Drive S.M.A.R.T. Status Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, or S.M.A.R.T., is a monitoring system for SATA drives to detect and report on various indicators of drive health. The S.M.A.R.T. feature keeps track and reports the status of SATA drive health using certain parameters recorded by the drives. The Fusion D400QR5 displays two possibilities: good, or failing. Drives marked as Failing should be replaced. Fusion QR5 v1.
Menus View Drive Temperatures SATA hard drives monitor their own temperature and report it to the Fusion D400QR5. Fusion QR5 v1.0 –Menu 1. Press the button under Menu four times; Disk Temp appears (Figure 10). Go– Drive:1: 37 –Next Error Statistics –Next Go– Drive:2: 36 –Next SMART Status –Next Go– Drive:3: 36 –Next Disk Temp – Q uit Drive:4: 35 – Q uit RAID Mode –Next 2. Press the button under Go on the display; Drive:1 temperature is displayed in degrees celsius (Figure 10). 3.
Tips and Additional Information This section covers some tips for using the Fusion D400QR5 enclosure. Hot-swapping: When connected via eSATA data cable to a Mac running Mac OS X, Fusion D400QR5 supports hot-swapping*, enabling you to exchange a set of drives without having to shut down your computer. This does not mean you can simply pull out the drives at any time; you must follow the procedures below or you may lose data, or cause the system to go into a degraded state in the process.
