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Cavalry Storage EN-CAHDD2B-D manual

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  • Page 1

    EN-CAHDD2B-D Dual-Ba y USB 2.0 RAID Dock Instruction Manual Cavalry , the names of series and the Cavalry logo are registered trademarks of Cavalry Storage. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity , one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes, and one terabyt[...]

  • Page 2

    T able of Cont ents CHAPTER 1. GETTING ST AR TED ............................................................................ 1 Features and Application........................................................................................... 1 Specications ........................................................................................[...]

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    EN-CAHDD2B-D 1 Thank you for purchasing the Cavalry dual-bay USB 2.0 RAID dock. The EN-CAHDD2B-D was designed for ultimate exibility . The multiple RAID settings allow users to have several discrete RAID arrays, using multiple disks, and still retain the ability to setup and test new drives on-the-y . The automatic disk-duplication feature al[...]

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    EN-CAHDD2B-D 2 1. Power LED 2. HDD Status LED 3. USB 2.0 Interface Port 4. RAID Conguration Switches 5. DC Power Input 6. Power Switch 1 2 3 4 5 6 This really isn’t a RAID mode at all. JBOD simply allows you to see each drive separately within either or both bays. There is no performance advantage to JBOD. But, it is very useful when transferr[...]

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    EN-CAHDD2B-D 3 In W indows, they call it “Disk Management”. In Mac, they call it “Disk Utility”. Despite having dif ferent names and appearances, both W indows Disk Management and Mac Disk Utility do basically the same thing: they allow you to create, modify and delete any storage volume connected to your computer . In order to get the most[...]

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    EN-CAHDD2B-D 4 Connect the Cavalry power supply .* Connect the USB cable to a port on your computer that you have used recently and know to work well. T ake this time to temporarily eject and disconnect any other external storage devices you have. This will make it easier to nd your new Cavalry dock. Insert the hard drives that you are going to [...]

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    EN-CAHDD2B-D 5 Power the dock off. Both disks should still be in the dock from your JBOD test. Set switches to RAID 1 mode shown in the image on the right. Power-on the dock. Check for 1 unallocated disk in your disk management utility . Now you are ready to partition and format that disk. As you do so, the invisible “mirrored” disk will receiv[...]

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    EN-CAHDD2B-D 6 ! Only blank or unallocated disks can be used to setup a RAID 0 array! Power the dock off. Both disks should still be in the dock from your JBOD test. Set the switches to RAID 0. See the picture on the right. Power-on the dock. Check for 1 unallocated disk in your disk management utility with a size close to that of your combined RAI[...]

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    EN-CAHDD2B-D 7 Windows: Navigate to Disk Management: Start Menu>right-click (My) Computer>select “Manage”>select Disk Management. Once in Disk Management, look for your drives in the bottom-right window . Y ou may have to scroll down to nd it. The disk(s) will most easily be recognized by their size. Ex.: If you are initializing a 1[...]

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    EN-CAHDD2B-D 8 Solid Green: A healthy , functioning HDD. Flashing Green/Red: The connected HDD is writing or formatting. Solid or Flashing Orange: The connected HDD is attempting to access the host PC. Solid or Flashing Red: The connected HDD is unhealthy or ofine. No LED: No HDD is connected, or the HDD is in-operational. I can’t see my drive[...]

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    EN-CAHDD2B-D 9 Cavalry Storage Inc. (“Cavalry Storage”) warrants all new equipment manufactured by Cavalry Storage (including any accessories in- cluded with its products) and sold by an authorized distributor or authorized reseller against defects in material or workmanship for one (1) year from the product’ s original date of purchase as fo[...]