User manual ADDONICS CRTM4HES

[. . . ] Make sure the power is off on the switch (power LED light should be off) Connect the provided eSATA cable from the back of the Cipher tower to the eSATA port on the 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. A sample key is shown Black label AES-256 stands for Cipher 256-bit key. To ensure there is a spare key, your Cipher tower comes with 4 pairs of Cipher keys. [. . . ] Power LED: I. Installing drives into the Cipher Tower Open the front panel of the Cipher tower. Slide the 3. 5" SATA hard drive into the drive bay. Note: It is recommended to fill up the tower with SATA drives from top to bottom. This is to help in identifying which drives connect to which ports for easier troubleshooting. ADDONICS TECHNOLOGIES Model: CRTM4HES III. Initial RAID setup of the Cipher tower: VI. Verify RAID Setting on the Cipher tower Note: Disconnect the Cipher tower from computer when verifying the RAID setting. It is assumed that you have already connected the SATA drives and set up the raid mode when verifying the raid setting. Push the RAID setting button with a ballpoint pen. Using the table below, verify if the LEDs are lighting up. The selected LEDs will light up for 2 seconds followed by a blink and cycles back. RAID Mode BIG 2 BIG 4 FAST 2 FAST 4 SAFE FAST SAFE 2 RAID 3 + S RAID 5 + S LEDs LEDs 1, 2 & 4 all OFF 4 ON, 2 & 1 OFF 2 ON, 4 & 1 OFF 1 ON, 4 & 2 OFF 4 & 2 ON, 1 OFF 4 & 1 ON, 2 OFF 2 & 1 ON, 4 OFF 4, 2 & 1 all ON a. d. e. Insert the AES 256-bit cipher key into cipher keyhole located at the back of the Cipher tower. Set the Rotary switch to the RAID configuration required. Push the RAID Setting button with a ballpoint pen tip 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 5 seconds to confirm RAID mode setting. Observed that the green Cipher power LEDs at the front 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. The Cipher tower LED's for the eSATA status and USB status will start blinking while holding down the raid setting button. Once the raid setting button is released, the HPM Health LED will blink 4-6 times. If the HPM Health LED stops blinking, the raid set is set correctly. If the HPM Health LED lights up as solid green, it is a bad setup. [. . . ] 4. 5. V. Instruction for Special RAID Modes: BIG 2 - 2 Drives Spanned o Note: Do not connect more than 2 SATA drives to the hardware port multiplier. Doing so will hang the system when you configure the raid. o For SATA drives with different capacities, the hardware port multiplier will use the smallest drive capacity of the 2 drives connected to create the total partition size. FAST 2 - 2 Drives Striped o Note: Do not connect more than 2 SATA drives to the hardware port multiplier. [. . . ]