Technical Specs
Instruction manual
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macOS
If you install a brand-new hard drive that doesn’t contain any data, you must prepare
the hard drive for use.
Warning! When you complete the following steps, you create a partition that uses the
entire hard drive space.
1. Do one of the following:
• In Spotlight, enter Disk Utility.
• Open Finder. Navigate to Applications and click Utilities. Open Disk Utility.
2. Select the hard drive and click the Partition tab.
3. Enter a name for the partition.
4. Click Apply.
The hard drive now appears on your desktop and is accessible in Finder.
About RAID modes
The S322M225R supports four RAID modes: RAID 0, RAID 1, JBOD, and SPAN.
RAID mode Description
RAID 0 Stripe set
Splits data evenly across two or more drives
RAID 1 Mirror
Creates a redundant drive on the second drive for security
JBOD Lets you to access the drives as just a bunch of
independent disks
Note: The motherboard or SATA host connector must
support the port multiplier to congure JBOD raid mode.
SPAN Combines or concatenates two drives into one large
logical volume










