Lindy 20288 User Manual

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Dual 2.5“ SATA Mobile RAID

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User Manual

English

LINDY No. 20288

For Home and Office Use
Tested to Comply with
FCC Standards

-ELEKTRONIK GMBH -

FIRST EDITION (Aug 2010)

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Overview

Installation

Unlock upper and lower covers

Note: Do not force the door to pen

while it is locked,

damaged the lock.

DC Jack

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Device

HDD ACTIVE LED

POWER LED

HDD ACTIVE LED

LOCK HOLE

HDD GATE

USB Host

Hardware

1.

Mode
Select
switch

Mode
change
switch

, then open the door.

otherwise, you will

eSAT

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lace one or two hard driver(s) in the slot. Make sure the SATA connector

is lined up with the connector inside the

Carefully push the hard driver into the

is seated securely, then close the door and lock it.

Users are advised to disable the device from the computer before unplugging the

cable or turning off the device.

If the hard drive does not support ACCESS signal, then the

will not flash when the hard drive is in use.

If the system cannot d

Do not open the door or turn off the power of the

is busy, this may cause damage to you hard drive.

It must be in the lock position when in use. This prevents

Do not force the door to open while it is locked, otherwise, you will damage the

RAID Information

Changing the RAID mode destroys data stored on the

If you have saved data on

RAID):

Note: It must be in the lock position when in

use. This prevents unexpected removal

while working.

, So that the drive

etect the device, please go to device management and

Mobile Rack

the drives, back up data before following these steps.

The two physical disks read as two independent hard drives

single housing, so that two logical volumes mount on the

desktop. Therefore, the computer will show two separate

SATA connector, the computer must

support port multiplier for this function to work.

The failure of one disk will not affect the other disk.

Therefore, the data on the working drive will be intact and

The two physical drives are combined

yet larger logical volume mounts on the desktop, offeri

maximum possible capacity (the available capacities of each

If one physical disk fails, the data on both disks

will become inaccessible. If you are concerned about

2. P

3.

SATA connector

Note:

1.

2.

3.
enable it.

4.

5.
while working.

6.
lock.

Mobile Rack.

Mobile Rack

HDD ACTIVE LED

while the hard drive

unexpected removal

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’s

Caution:

1. JBOD (Non-

in a

2.

：：：：

drives.
Note: When using the e-

functioning.

BIG (Concatenation):

so that one single

disk are combined).
Note:

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ning

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Fast (RAID 0 Mode):

Safe (RAID 1 Mode):

RAID 1 (SAFE 33%) + (BIG 67%), 33% of memory space on both

RAID 1 (SAFE 50%) + (BIG 50%), 50% of the memory in both disks

Use

data security, we highly recommend using Safe configuration

together so that one

larger logical volume mounts on the desktop, offering the

e in Big mode (the available

capacities of each disk are combined) y

than the Big mode (the speed of each disk runs faster to a

If one drive fails, the data on both disks will become

The two physical drives are “mirrored” (RAID 1) so that one

single logical volume mounts on the desktop. All of the data

drive will be recoverable from the other drive (the

available capacity of one drive cannot exceed the available

If one physical disk fails, the data can be immediately

recovered from the second disk. No data will be lost

hard drives will be operating under RAID 1 mode, and the

rest of the hard drive memory on both disks will be assorted

will be RAID 1, and the rest of the hard drive memory on

to configure

Only under GUI ONLY mode, SteelVine Manage can

change the hard drive memory mode, on other modes,

SteelVine Manager can monitor the hard drive statue, not

according to the above seven mode , need to turn

which you want to

Hard drive management

which you want to

3.

4.

5. Safe33:

(RAID 1 mode).

The two physical drives are stripped

maximum possible capacity lik

certain level).

Note:
inaccessible.

on one

capacity of the other drive).

Note:

drive fails.

et with greater speed

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if one

6. Safe50:

7. GUI ONLY:

into BIG.

both disks will be assorted into BIG.

SteelVine Manager Software

change that.

Note：Changing the Mobile Rack

policy
the Mode Select to a new position
change，then press Mode change
latest storage policy take effect.

After effected, you need to click“My
Computer”

，

“Management””

the HDD Mode.

hard drive storage

button to reset，so the

” then