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
.rorrePMET/NAFrofrezzubelbatuMmralA
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