User manual ADDONICS CRT235SMH

[. . . ] Make sure the power is off on the switch (power LED light should be off) Connect the provided eSATA or USB2. 0 cable from the back of the Cipher tower to the eSATA or USB2. 0 on the computer. We recommend connecting the eSATA port for best performance if this port is available on your computer. IMPORTANT There is no back door for the Cipher tower encrypted hard drives if the Cipher keys are lost or stolen. Cipher key Check to make sure you have the correct version of the Cipher key. [. . . ] Once you proceed to partition the drive, the data that was on the hard drive will be erased and cannot be recovered. RAID Health eSATA Access Drive 2 Activity LED Power LED Drive 1 Activity LED USB Access LED Information: When power switch is turned on, the green LED lights up. Drive 1 Activity LED: When there is drive activity, the LED blinks. Drive 2 Activity LED: When there is drive activity, the LED blinks. eSATA Access LED: When eSATA port is used to connect to a system, the LED lights up. USB Access LED: When USB port is used to connect to a system, the LED lights up. RAID Health LED: When the RAID volume fails, the LED blinks. Cipher keyhole Cipher keyhole Cipher Power LED Power LED: I. Installing drives into the Cipher Tower Step 1 Using 3. 5" SATA hard drive, slide the drive into the drive bay. Close the front panel and using the key provided, turn the key lock to the Lock position. This will secure the drive and turn on the power to the hard drive. Note: It is recommended to fill up the Cipher tower with SATA drives from top to bottom. This is to help in identifying which drives connect to which ports for easier troubleshooting. HDD LED RAID setting button RAID config rotary switch USB port eSATA port ADDONICS TECHNOLOGIES Model: CRT235SMH III. Initial RAID setup of the Cipher tower: a. Insert the AES 256-bit cipher keys into the two cipher keyholes located at the back of the Cipher tower. Set the Rotary switch to the RAID configuration required. Push the RAID Setting button while the Cipher tower is turned off. While holding the RAID setting button, turn on the Cipher tower and continue to hold for at least 2 seconds to confirm RAID mode setting. Observed that the green Cipher power LEDs at the back of the Cipher tower are on. If they did not, reinsert the cipher keys and re-power the Cipher tower while holding the RAID setting button. Check in the 57xx SteelVine Manager if the RAID configuration is correct. [. . . ] Install the utility from the CD that came with your package. The Addonics Technologies Driver Disk window pops up. To extract the utility select your operating system from the list. [. . . ]