Fantom Drives G-Force Megadisk Quick Start Installation Manual - Setting The Raid
Setting the RAID
operation mode
You can configure the Fantom Drives Megadisk eSATA+USB
to use any of the following Storage Policies to map the
physical hard drives to virtual drives, or "volumes", that
are visible to the host computer. The host operating system
treats these volumes as if they were a single physical drive.
This virtualization allows you to overcome restrictions that
are imposed by physical hard drives, such as speed, storage
capacity or data storage reliability. To select a storage policy,
make sure that the unit is powered on, set the rotary switch
on the back of the Megadisk with a small flathead screwdriver
to the desired storage policy, and press the recessed "Mode
Change Commit" button with a pin or paperclip to create
the new virtual volume(s). Refer to page 6, "Fantom Drives
GForce Megadisk Hard Disk at a Glance" for the locations of
the storage policy mode switch and commit button.
FAST (RAID 0)
SAFE (RAID 1)
SAFE33
SAFE50
Commit Button
(Reserved)
JBOD
BIG (Span)
Please exercise care before pressing the "Commit" button.
Creating new virtual volumes will destroy any existing data
that existed on the previous volume!
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Formatting the Drive in
Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
1. Open the disk management console. A list of the attached
drives and their respective volumes will appear. Select the
Fantom Drives GForce Megadisk Disk.
The Disk Management Console can be found under
\Windows\System32\diskmgmt.msc on your system
drive. For an illustrated guide, please see http://www.
fantomdrives.com/support/faqs
2. Right-click on the drive letter and select Format in the pop-
up menu. The Format dialog box will appear.
3. Under Capacity, verify the Drive capacity. It should be close
to the stated capacity of your Drive in gigabytes.
4. In the File System pop-up menu, select NTFS. The default
formatting option is Full format. A Full format will take about
30-90 minutes. A Quick format will take just a few minutes,
but will do less verifying of the Drive than a Full format. Click
Start. Once the format process is complete, your External
Hard Drive is ready to use.
5. In Windows XP, it is possible to optimize the drive for
performance or quick removal. To select your desired mode,
open the device manager (located in \Windows\System32\
devmgmt.msc on your system drive.) right-click the Fantom
external disk in Disk Drives, and select properties. Select the
Policies Tab near the top left of the window, and click your
desired optimization level. press OK when finished, and you
may close the disk management applet.