HFR2-SU3S2 CONTENTS OVERVIEW For 3.5’’ SATA I / II / III HARD DRIVE *SATA III at 3.0 Gbps STAT II speed 1 LED indication SELF-ASSEMBLY 4 Quick installation guide SETUP 6 RAID mode setup / LED display status INITIALIZATION 15 - 24 Windows 7 / Windows 8.1 / Windows 10 Mac OS 10.8 or later REFERENCES www.mediasonicusa.com Online forum http://forum.mediasonic.ca/ 25 -28 12.08.15 Version:1.
OVERVIEW DESCRIPTION DIAGRAM of HFR2-SU3CS2 FRONT PANEL 1 2 3 4 5 LED INDICATION 6 7 8 9 10 23 12 13 11 25 26 27 28 1 24 18 19 20 21 22 14 15 16 17 1. Blue Orange 2. Rebuild 3. HDD error 4. RAID 0 5. RAID 0 6. RAID 1 7. RAID 3 8. RAID 5 9. RAID 10 10. Single 11. Power button 12. eSATA 13. USB Power on Sleep mode When any of HDD1~HDD4 has error, HDD error is on. Spanning Mode / BIG Striping Mode Simulation of single mode It needs to be pressed for 3 seconds to power off.
REAR DESCRIPTION 1. Fan 2. RAID Mode Confirmation button 3. eSATA port 4. USB 3.0 / USB 2.0 port 1 SELF-ASSEMBLY Quick installation guide A. Please use the provided handles to secure the 4 HDDs with screws. 2 3 4 B. Press the circular depression to open the cover. SIDE DESCRIPTION 1. DC Jack 2. DC Power 1 C. Press down the rib to detach the metal frame and remove it.
D. Take the transport paper board out of the device. E. Slide 4 HDDs into the chassis and make sure they are securely installed in order from up to down. F. Adjust the metal frame that was removed in Step C. Please make sure the bottom of the frame stays inside the track before closing the cover. SETUP RAID mode setup 1. Make sure the PC is ON and ready to go, then power on the device. 2.
RAID 0 Spanning (BIG) JBOD Spanning concatenates multiple hard drives as a single large volume; resulting in a seamless expansion of virtual volumes beyond the physical limitations of separately connected hard drives. The data are written from HDD1 to HDD4. RAID 3 Striped set with dedicated parity Raid 0, JBOD Spanning Only , Non-Single JBOD This mechanism provides an improved performance and fault tolerance similar to RAID 5 but with a dedicated parity disk rather than rotated parity stripes.
LED Display Status LED Display Status MODE LED Display MODE LED Display RAID 0 When any of HDD1 ~ HDD4 is recognized by the PC, HDD1 ~ HDD4 blue / active is on. RAID 0 When any of HDD1 ~ HDD4 is recognized by the PC, HDD1 ~ HDD4 blue / active is on.
LED Display Status LED Display Status MODE LED Display MODE LED Display RAID 1 When any of HDD1 ~ HDD4 is recognized by the PC, HDD1 ~ HDD4 blue / active is on. RAID 3 When any of HDD1 ~ HDD4 is recognized by the PC, HDD1 ~ HDD4 blue / active is on.
LED Display Status LED Display Status MODE LED Display MODE LED Display RAID 5 When any of HDD1 ~ HDD4 is recognized by the PC, HDD1 ~ HDD4 blue / active is on. RAID 10 When any of HDD1 ~ HDD4 is recognized by the PC, HDD1 ~ HDD4 blue / active is on.
Windows 7 If the HDD is uninitialized, you may have to initialize it by doing steps as followed: At first click “Start”, “Execute” at your PC and key in “diskmgmt. msc”. After that please press “RETURN” key. 1. Start disk initialization. 15 2. Create new partition and format disk. 3.
Start disk initialization. Windows 8.1 / Windows 10 Note: Please enable GPT if the total capacity is more than 2TB and enable MBR if the total capacity is less than 2TB. Activate MBR if total volume is less than 2TB Activate GPT if total volume is more than 2TB Move the cursor of your mouse to the bottom left corner and right click “Run”. If the HDD is uninitialized, you may have to initialize it by doing steps as followed: At first click “Start”, “Execute” at your PC and key in “diskmgmt. msc”.
1. Start disk initialization. 2. Create new partition and format disk. 3.HDD format completed Note: Please enable GPT if the total capacity is more than 2TB and enable MBR if the total capacity is less than 2TB.
Start disk initialization. Mac OS 10.8 or later Note: Please enable GPT if the total capacity is more than 2TB and enable MBR if the total capacity is less than 2TB. 1. Click Disk Utility icon. Activate MBR if total volume is less than 2TB Activate GPT if total volume is more than 2TB 2. HDD initialize...
5. HDD format in process 3. Click Erase 4. Click Erase 23 6.
REFERENCES 14. To take the HDD out from the device, slightly press down the handle of the tray 1. Changing the RAID mode will cause data lost. 15. Setting up motherboard's power management in S3 is recommended. 2. Please refer to the instructions when switching the RAID mode, otherwise the execution might fail. 3. Interface of USB / eSATA can not be used at the same time. 4. When using RAID function, HDDs with the same brand, model and capacity is strongly recommended. 5.
Figure-3 26. The chart below tells you that the device still functions when one HDD has error. RAID MODE RAID 1 When one HDD has error, the device still functions well RAID 3 but you may have to replace it with a new one immediately. RAID 5 RAID 10 1. When one HDD has error, the device still functions well but you may have to replace it with a new one immediately. 2. The chart below tells you that the device still functions when two HDDs have error. : HDD installed 20.
