TerraMaster TDAS D5-300 User manual

User Manual
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Model:D5-300
TerraMaster TDAS

Contents
1. Overview
2. Packing Contents
8. Data Recovery
4. Indicators
3. Apperance
5. Hardware Installaon
6. Connecon
7. DISK GROUP
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1. Overview
2. Packing Contents
TDAS is the collecve name of TerraMaster Direct Aached Storage. This product belongs to the TerraMaster
TDAS product series. Please read the instrucons carefully before use. If you have any queson, please visit
the “Support” on TerraMaster’s official website or contact TerraMaster’s technical support team.
Main unit *1 Power cord *1 Power adapter*1 Several screws
Installaon guide *1 USB type-C cable*1 Product brochure
(oponal)
When you receive your newly purchased product, please check whether the package contains the following
arcles. If any of them are missing, please contact our dealer in me.
When you receive your newly purchased TDAS product, please log in to TerraMaster’s official website
(www.terra-master.com) first, find the page of “Quick Guide”, and perform the installaon and make changes
to the sengs according to the Guide.
In order to meet the improvement requirements of this product, the external design, specificaons and other
aspects of this product may be changed from me to me without prior noce.
Please note that the pictures and illustraons in this manual are only intended as an illustraon may be
different from the real product.

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Illustraon of panel: Illustraon of rear cover:
3. Appearance
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NO Descripon Interface
Hard disk tray, used for holding hard disks
Hard disk indicator
Power buon
Power Jack
USB Type-C interface
DC 12V power input
Warning: Do not use non-original power adapters. Otherwise the
device may be damaged!
USB data transmission interface
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NO Descripon Indicator
Hard disk indicator
Power indicator
1.Red: The hard disk is faulty or is restoring data.
2.Blinking green: Reading or wring data.
3.Off: No hard disk detected.
1.Steady on: Powered on
2.Off: Powered off
4. Indicator
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The product needs to be equipped with 2.5 or 3.5-inch SATA hard disk. If the product you buy does not come
with installed hard disk, you will need to purchase hard disk. The product can be used only aer hard disk
installaon and product inializaon are complete.
5. Hard Disk Installaon
1. Pull the handle out of the hard
disk tray, Grasp it and draw the
hard disk tray from the product.
2. Fix in the hard disk and tray by
using the given screws and insert
the tray into the product along
the track. While inserng the tray,
please open the handle and keep
the handle in this posion.
Otherwise, the tray may not be
inserted into the product
correctly.
3. Aer the tray is fully inserted,
the handle should be closed. The
hard disk installaon is
completed. If you would like to
install the remaining hard disks
your have, please refer to steps
above.
Procedure for hard disk installaon:

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Procedure for connecon:
Step 1:
Connect one end of the USB Type-C cord to the Type-C interface of the product, and connect the other end to
the USB interface of computer.
Step 2:
Please connect the product a power source by using the power adapter. The power adapter provides 12V DC;
Warning: do not use the non-original power adapter for this product. Otherwise, the product may malfuncon
and the physical body may be damaged in an extreme case!
Step 3:
Press the power buon to power on. When the power is connected, the product’s power indicator will turn
on.
Step 4:
If the hard disks work normally and the product powers on, the hard disk indicator will temporarily display
red, followed by Blinking green, and finally green lights. If the hard disk indicator displays red all the me, it
indicates that the hard disk is cannot be read. The hard disk may be damaged, inccompable with the product.
If this occurs, please turn off the product and proceed to reinstall the same hard disk. If the hard disk indicator
sll displays red, please replace the hard disk with a new one and try again.
Step 5:
Aer the product is connected to your computer, you might see a prompt asking you to format the product
or come across a message reading “The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer”. Please select
“Cancel” or “Ignore”, as the formang of the product should occur only aer you create a disk group.
6. Connecon
Before use, power on the product and connect the data interface to your computer.
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How to download RAID Manager?
The method and procedure for creang and changing a disk group are as follows:
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To create a disk group for the product, you need to use a piece of auxiliary soware called RAID Manager, for
which there are two versions: Windows and Mac OS. TerraMaster provides free downloads of this soware to
users.
Please go to the official website of TerraMaster (www.terra-master.com), find the model of this product in the
model column at “Download”, and then download the RAID Manager in the download directory.
Step 1:
Install and run RAID Manager on your computer.
This secon introduces how to create and change a disk group.
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Step 2:
Delete disk group (if you haven’t created a disk group on this product, ignore this step).
In the menu of the RAID Manager, choose “Basic Mode” > “Basic RAID Configuraon”, select “Delete All RAID”
in the “Configure RAID” menu, and click “Apply” to complete the deleon. During this process, if your
computer prompts you to format the product or display a message reading “The disk you inserted was not
readable by this computer,” please select “Cancel” or “Ignore”.
Step 3:
In the menu of “RAID Manager”, choose “Basic Mode” > “Basic RAID Configuraon”, select the type of disk
group you want to create in the “Configure RAID” menu, and click “Apply” to complete the creaon. During
this process, if your computer prompts you to format the product or display a message reading “The disk you
inserted was not readable by this computer,” please select “Cancel” or “Ignore”.

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Step 4:
Format disk group. Switch to the “Disk Management” menu on your Windows computer or the “Disk Ulies”
menu on your Mac computer to format the disk group. Aer the formang is completed, the product is ready
for use.
8. Data Recovery
This product supports automac data recovery. If a hard disk in a disk group is faulty (in that case, the hard
disk indicator will turn red), you can directly replace the faulty hard disk, and data will be automacally
recovered to the new hard disk. This funcon applies only to disk group types of RAID5.
Creang or changing a disk group may lead to formang of hard disks, and consequently all the data in the
hard disks will be deleted. Please back up the data in the hard disks before proceeding.
Note: While you are replacing the faulty hard disk, the product needs to remain powered on and connected
to the computer. The capacity of the new hard disk should be larger than or equal to that of the faulty hard
disk. The amount of me that data recovery takes depends on the capacity of the hard disk. It ranges from a
few hours to tens of hours. The product and the computer need to remain powered on during data recovery.