User manual ADDONICS CRT235SMH

[. . . ] Connecting the power cable and Cipher Tower to the computer Connect the power cord provided from the wall outlet to the back of the Cipher Tower. 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. [. . . ] There will be no partition or any hint to indicate that the drive contains encrypted data. The same holds true if a hard drive already has data on it is installed into the Cipher tower. The computer detects the hard drive as a brand new drive or a drive that is unallocated. 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. 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. 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. Insert the AES 256-bit cipher keys into the two cipher keyholes located at the back of the Cipher tower. 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. [. . . ] When the Cipher tower is restarted, the two cipher keys must be inserted again in order to gain access to the drives. 3. 4. 5. V. 57xx SteelVine Manager utility installation for Cipher tower Note: If you plan to monitor the status of your raid set, you need to install the Sil5744 SteelVine Manager on your system. After software installation, restart your system off. Technical Support Contact Information Phone: 408-573-8580 Fax: 408-573-8588 Email: http://www. addonics. com/sales/query/ Internet: http://www. addonics. com TECHNICAL SUPPORT Phone: 408-453-6212 Hours: 8:30 am - 6:00 pm PST Email: http://www. addonics. com/support/query/ The 57xx SteelVine Manager Utility manual can found in the Driver Disk under User Guides or can be downloaded from http://www. addonics. com/support/user_guides/host_controller/SiI 57XX_Users_Guide_Rev_1. 0. pdf [. . . ]