iStarUSA iAGE520ES-PM User Manual

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iAGE520ES-PM
Tower-5Bay Non-RAID Enclosure

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USER'S MANUAL

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1. Product Overview

Features:

* Aluminum housing, anodized surface, benefits for cooling and durability

* Small, compact, and light weight

* Backplane design for four removable SATA drive trays

* Built-in cooling fans for self-contained ventilation

* Individual key lock of each HDD tray for physical security

* LED indicators for power and activity on each HDD tray

* Environmental monitoring with FAN/TEMP LED indicators and MUTE button

Descriptions:

It is a five Bay Hot-Swap Serial ATA Enclosure featuring environmental monitoring. It

provides a low cost and high performance external data backup solution; It will bring

the convenience of data back up ability by SATA interface.

Specifications:

Host Interface SATAII

HDD Interface SATAI/II

Data Transfer Rate 3.0 Gbps

Hot-Swap Both on Host and Device

LED Display

White – Power on indicator

Blue – Busy (HDD Accessing) indicator

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LED Display for

Environmental Monitoring

POWER on LED - white

FAN normal – green; fail – red (too slow rpm or

stop)

TEMP normal – green; over 55°C – red

※ We strongly recommend customers to replace

a new fan ASAP after the fan failed.

Cooling Two 60 x 60 x 10 mm Cooling Fans

Dimension (L):23.15cm (W):15.68cm (H):20.97cm

Material

Anodized Aluminum with Mirror Acrylic plastic

front panel & Plastic tray face

Power Supply 150W

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Input: 90 – 230 VAC 50- 60 Hz

Output: +5V and +12V DC

System Required

Silicon Image SiI3132 PCI-E or SiI3124 PCI-X

with eSATA (external SATAII shielding) port

O.S. support OS independent

Package Content:

- Enclosure x 1

- HDD Tray x 5

- SATAII Shielding Cable x 1

- Power Cord x 1

- Manual CD-ROM x1

- Hard Disk Drive mounting screw x 20

- Key for HDD tray x 2

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2. Quick Installation Guide

a. Connect SATA cable from Host to SATA port.
b. C onnect power cord.
c. T urn on power switch, then you can start playing this unit.

eSATA Port

Power Switch

Power cord Receptacle

Kensington

Security Key Slot

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3. About Port Multiplier Solution

Features and Benefits:

- Built-in Port Multiplier chip to control Max. 5HDD

- Just 1 eSATA cable to control Max. 5HDD (Max. cable

performance 3.0G per cable)

- Shielding connector ensure the frequent plug/unplug as USB

- Compliant with Silicon Image SiI3124-2 SATAII PCI-X or

SiI3132 SATAII PCI-Express with eSATA port

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4. Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Why does the controller show only 1 HD connected, not possible to
make RAID with RAID BIOs? (see below)

A: Please ignore this step.
Due to Silicon Image firmware limitation, you’ll see only ONE HDD via
BIOs -- no matter your host interface, Motherboard-built-in or HBA
(host bus adapter), SiI3124 PCI-X or SiI3132 PCI-Express, is RAID or
non-RAID version.

Please just WAIT until entering the Windows Operating System.

With non-RAID version, you’ll see all drives installed via DISK
MANAGER.
With RAID version,
Install GUI (Array Manager) software (usually bundled with the

manual/driver CD supplied by host interface supplier).

i.e.

You’ll see all disks installed via the software.

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Q: Why does the bundled GUI software support only 4 HDDs in RAID5
configuration

A: It’s presently Silicon Image firmware limitation. They promise to
release an update to solve this problem. Pls contact yoiur host

interface supplier.

Q: Following previous issue, how can I use all (five) HDDs of the
enclosure while the GUI just can RAID four HDDs??

A: It’s possible to make following RAID configurations: RAID 5 with
hot-spare & RAID10 with hot-spare, both require 5 HDs and therefore
use all 5 bays of the enclosure.

Q: Following previous issue, how can I configure RAID5+Spare with
the GUI?

A: You will see 5 HDD in Array Manager

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Create Spare HDD

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Create 1G Parity RAID ( 4 HDD Max )

You will see 1G HDD in disk management

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Q: Does the enclosure support HOT-SWAP of HDDs???
A: Definitely yes, except RAID 0, with RAID or non-RAID of host

interface.

Q: Does the Port Multiplier solution support AUTO rebuilding of
HDDs???
A: Only when configure via GUI via “Hot-Spare” drive.
Take RAID5+S as sample:

HDD1 – HDD4 are created to RAID 5 and now is accessing.

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Pull out HDD3

Array manager – HDD3 lost and rebuild to HDD5 ( Spare HDD ) and
Burning program still keep running

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When rebuilding finished, this

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Q: Pls inform the OS compatibility of the bundled GUI?
A: Presently, Windows only.

Q: What can I do to a RAID version host interface, if I just want to
use OS built-in RAID?
A: Pls make all 5 HDDs as contiguous, then made dynamic volumes
and used OS built-in RAID-5