Instruction Manual

To configure control/manage this controller. End user can do either use Dip
switch Setting (below) or download the RAID GUI on our website.
Dip Switch Setting
Mode
M2 M1 M0
JBOD OFF OFF OFF
0 (Stripe) ON ON ON
1 (Mirror) or 10 ON ON OFF
3- Parity ON OFF OFF
5 - Parity OFF ON OFF
CLONE (n Mirror) OFF ON ON
BIG/SPAN ON OFF ON
Other dip switches:
EZ – OFF (default)
- Auto rebuilt is enable, to manual rebuilt set to ON
BZS – OFF (default)
- Alarm will go off when encounter an error, to Mute the buzzer set to ON
(disable alarm)
End user can also controller/manger this controller via RAID GUI, which
download able from this product page in support tab:
http://www.datoptic.com/usb3-and-esata-to-5-sata-drive-hardware-raid-jbod-
controller.html
Please refer to RAID GUI Guide which is also download able at our site
Note:
– Optical Drive only support in JBOD mode
– RAID3 & 5 requires min. of three drives where
– RAID1 is two drives and RAID10 is four drives
– Clone: All hard drive are mirror
– JBOD: Just a Bunch of Drive requires a PM ware host port
Which port will act as a Spare Drive?
The last Drive will become Spare Drive automatically.
See examples below:
Condition Result
Port0~3 set to Raid5
Port0 ~ Port2 are Raid5
And Port 3 is Spare Drive
Port0~4 set to Raid10
Port 0 ~ Port3 are Raid10
And Port 4 is Spare Drive
Port0, 3, 4 set to Raid1
Port0 & Port3 are Raid1
And Port 4 is Spare Drive
RAID setting
Once all HDD is connected.
1 – Press and Hold SET (SW2) switch with paper clip or ball pen
2 – Apply power to the bridge and hard drives
3 – Hold until the buzzer sound off then release the SET switch
You just created a RAID set.
Note: All the RAID metadata is ON the HDD, therefore
1) You can have multiple set of RAID set
2) All the RAID sets are interchange-able with our controller
3) To change an exist RAID mode, the existed RAID Hard drives must re-
set st back to JBOB mode before a NEW mode can be create
Recommend Usage:
The BEST use of this controller is to connect to a SATAII Or SATAIII with
enough bandwidth.
Example if there an eSATA port connects to computer via a PCIe x1 then you
won't get 250MB/s transfer rate, due to the limited band of this adapter
(2.5Gb/s). If Main Board's SATA port is used, make sure the BIOS's SATA
ports set as AHCI or Enhance, do not use these port as IDE or compatible
mode. Which will disable much of enhance feature that SATAII offer, thus
make the data transfer lower.
If you have question or need help please contact us at:
Web site: www.datoptic.com
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Telephone: [phone] (Out side US)
800 266 7310 (In side USA )