Manuale d’uso / di manutenzione del prodotto Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 del fabbricante OWC
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U ser Guide & O wners Manual.
OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 T able of Cont ents 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 SY STEM REQUIREMENTS 1.1.1 Mac Requirements 1.1.2 PC Requirements 1.1.3 Supported Hard Drives 1.2 P A CKAGE C ONTENTS 1.3 ABOUT THIS MANUAL 1.4 PORT VIE W & CABLE CONNECTIONS 1.5 DET AILED VIEW 1.
1.1 System Requir ements 1.1.1 Mac Requirements •Minimum Pow erPC G4 Pr ocessor , 128MB RAM •eSA T A interface, Mac OS X 10.3 or later (OR) •F ireWir e inter face, Mac OS X 10.
1.4 P or t View Cable Connections: Attachment of the cables is simple on an y platform. 1 . Plug the power input c ord into the wall and t o the OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2. 2 . Connect the eSA T A, F ireW ire 800, F ireWire 400, or USB 2.0 cable - appropriat e for the interface your computer supports, into the drive and computer .
OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.5 RAID Congur ation 1.5.1 LED Indicators & Buttons 1.5.2 RAID Selec tor Switch ! When only 2 or 3 hard drives are installed, the red LED lights indicate missing hard drives and can be safely ignored.
OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.5.3 Smart Fan The OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Q x2 utilizes a smart fan which automatically regulates the fan speed according t o internal temperatur es. It starts at low speed, gradually increasing fan speed up to maximum when int ernal temperatures r each 140 degrees F ahrenheit.
OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.6.4 Disk Mirroring with Striping (RAID 10) (also known as RAID 1+0) (4 Drives) The drives show up as one v olume, but only 50% of the total capacity can be used, depending on the drive with the smallest capacity .
OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 2 - Syst em Setup 2.1 Hard Drive A ssembly The hard drives can be installed a t any position, there is no specic or der requir ed. If you ’ re only going to use 2 hard drives to beg in, insert them in the rst 2 slots, A & B.
OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 2 - Syst em Setup 2.2 Replacing Hard Drives When one of the hard drives fails , the Rebuild LED will light up orange and the corre - sponding HDD LED will light up or ash red.
OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 3 - F ormatting 3 FORMA TTING 3.1 F ormatting y our Qx2 on a Macint osh with Mac OS X Click on the “Initialize ” button. Select the device with no volumes attached to it; in this picture, that would be the 4 TB OWC device .
Once you ’ve selected the OWC device, y ou will notice the above change in the Disk Utility application. Click on the “P ar tition ” tab in this picture.
Choose a name for the v olume. Y ou will need to repeat this step f or each volume if you selected multiple partitions. Click Apply to nish. ➄ ➅ After a few moments , par titioning will complete and the OWC Mercur y Elite Qx2 v olume will mount on your desktop .
OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 3 - F ormatting 3.2 Removing the GUID P artition S cheme Only for XP , 2000, ME and earlier. (XP 64-BIT , Vista & Windows 7 can continue to the ne xt section) ➆ T ype exit and hit enter . ➇ Close the command prompt window .
OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 3 - F ormatting 3.3 F ormatting y our Qx2 on W indows 2000 and lat er Instructions for other operating systems can be found at h ttp://www.macsales.com/f or mat . ➀ With the driv e connected to the computer and power ed on, right click on the “My Comput er ” icon and select “Manage” from the menu.
➃ Your drive will appear similar to how Disk 1 does below. Notice that the space on the lower right reads as “Unallo - cated.” Right click in this space and choose “New Partition.” ➄ The “New P ar tition Wizar d” will launch. Click “Next ” to continue .
➇ If you like, y ou can specify the drive letter designa tion for y our new drive. Other wise, one will automatically be assigned . Click “Nex t. ” ➈ Before y ou can use the drive, it must be f or mat - ted. On most sy stems running Windo ws 2000 or later , it is advisable to specify the le system as NTFS.
➀➀ Once you have nished with the formatting wizar d, you will see that y our new drive (repr e - sented as “Disk E” in this case) will display a message of “F or - matting. ” This should only take a couple of minutes if you chose the quick format op- tion.
Using y our new Stor age Solution on both Macs and PCs? MacDrive takes the guesswork out of sharing les. Whether you ar e trans - ferring les between home and the oce, a class room lab and your dorm room or even on the same computer , MacDrive makes it painless .
OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 4 - T roubleshooting & Tips 4 TROUBLESHOO TING & TIPS 4.1 T roubleshooting Some of the most simple problems can be traced to po wer , or connectivity issues. Begin your troubleshooting b y verifying that pow er is plugged into the external stor- age solution, and if connected to a power strip .
OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Qx2 Chapter 5 - Appendix 5.1 F AQ Q: How do I format m y storage solution? A: OWC has detailed instructions online for most popular operating systems , located at: http://www.
•Read this manual and review Chapter 4: T roubleshooting & Tips. •T r y to conrm the problem is with the hard driv e. If you hav e a second computer , move the enclosur e to that system and v erify that the solution does not function with that machine.
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Se non hai ancora comprato il OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 è un buon momento per familiarizzare con i dati di base del prodotto. Prime consultare le pagine iniziali del manuale d’uso, che si trova al di sopra. Dovresti trovare lì i dati tecnici più importanti del OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 - in questo modo è possibile verificare se l’apparecchio soddisfa le tue esigenze. Esplorando le pagine segenti del manuali d’uso OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 imparerai tutte le caratteristiche del prodotto e le informazioni sul suo funzionamento. Le informazioni sul OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 ti aiuteranno sicuramente a prendere una decisione relativa all’acquisto.
In una situazione in cui hai già il OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2, ma non hai ancora letto il manuale d’uso, dovresti farlo per le ragioni sopra descritte. Saprai quindi se hai correttamente usato le funzioni disponibili, e se hai commesso errori che possono ridurre la durata di vita del OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2.
Tuttavia, uno dei ruoli più importanti per l’utente svolti dal manuale d’uso è quello di aiutare a risolvere i problemi con il OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2. Quasi sempre, ci troverai Troubleshooting, cioè i guasti più frequenti e malfunzionamenti del dispositivo OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 insieme con le istruzioni su come risolverli. Anche se non si riesci a risolvere il problema, il manuale d’uso ti mostrerà il percorso di ulteriori procedimenti – il contatto con il centro servizio clienti o il servizio più vicino.
