NexStar® GX USB 3.0 Dual 2.5” SATA SSD/HDD/SDHD RAID Enclosure is a small, fast and simple way to expand and protect your data. Designed ideally for Solid State Drives, this compact form factor can house two Solid State Drives or Hard Drives for RAID capability. This RAID in a box simplifies the configuration using JBOD (Individual)/RAID0/RAID1 mode, with these RAID mode you can decide for speed or/and redundancy for your storage like your precious family photos, music, video, and games. The sturdy drive cage protects your drives while the aluminum case and front vents effectively draws away the heat to keep your drives cool and improve performance. This Vantec NexStar® GX 2.5” will provide the performance in a RAID environment when couple with Solid State Drives.
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If you are experiencing connection issue, like drop connection, cannot recognize the second drive, unable to format drives or another strange symptom, make sure you are using the provided ac adapter.
This is caused by your drives drawing too much power from your USB port and your USB port cannot provide enough power to the drives.
We have found out current newer SSD (per drive) and HDD (per drive) power requirement are exceeding the power of one USB port as a result the provided AC Adapter is required.
Here are the steps to setup RAID on the NST-272S3-BK.
1) Power ON your system, wait for the system to be fully booted up
2) Use a pen tip to change the RAID switch to the right setting
3) Power up the unit, plug in the USB cable to your system
4) Wait for the drive to spin up if this is HDD, If SSD go to the next step
5) Press and hold the reset button for 3 seconds (HDD LEDs will turn off)
6) Release the reset button and the built-in RAID controller will activate the RAID Mode based on the RAID dip switch setting
7) The RAID is now ready to be initialize, partition and formatted for the Operating System you are using before it can store data
8) For Windows, use Disk Management. For OS X, use Disk Utility
For detail instruction refer to the FAQ "How to preparing a New storage, Hard Drive, or SSD for use with a system?"
There are two set of instruction. One for Windows OS and another for OS X. Please use the right set of instruction for your System.
>>>>>> 1) Preparing a new hard drive for use with Windows 7/8/10 OS <<<<<<
NOTE: If you have important data on this drive, DO NOT go any further, please backup your data before you continue. These steps will erase ALL your data on the drive.
For Windows 7, hold the Windows logo key on your keyboard and press “R” (Winkey+R). This will launch the Run the utility. Type “diskmgmt.msc” inside the text box and press Enter. This will open the Windows Disk Management utility. This is where you can format, create, and delete hard drive partitions.
For Windows 8/8.1/10, hold the Windows logo key on your keyboard and press “X” (Winkey+X). This will launch a popup window and select disk management.
Usually, the Initialize Disk Wizard will appear automatically when you open Disk Management. If you have more than one blank drive that needs to be initialized it will list them. Make sure that there is a check in the box of the drive that needs to be initialized, select check MBR if your hard drive is smaller than 2TB, if it is greater than 2TB, please check GPT and then left-click on the Ok button. If the wizard does show up, go to step 5. If the wizard does not show up, please see the note and additional images directly below.
Critical: If your hard drive is greater than 2TB in capacity, you need to use check GPT(GUID Partition Table), if it is smaller, select MBR.
Note: If you do not see the Initialize Disk wizard, manually start the initialization. The drive that needs to be initialized should have a little circle with a red arrow pointing down like in the image below.
When you find it. Right-click on the red arrow and choose Initialize Disk.
There are two mode of initializing a new drive using MBR or GPT. If your hard drive is greater than 2TB, you need to use check GPT, if it is smaller, select MBR.
The drive is now initialized. The disk should have a black bar and say that it is Unallocated. You should now be able to create a partition and format the hard drive.
Now right click the unallocated space and click create a New Simple Volume shown below:
Follow the on screen wizard by clicking Next
Specify your volume size, if you are not sure use the default, and now click Next
Assign a drive letter to the drive, if you are not sure use the default and click Next
Format the partition and name the volume, if you are not sure use the default
Now click Finish and it will start formatting the drive to get it ready for use.
Once the formatting is done, your system will report the presense of a new drive with an assigned drive letter. You can begin using the storage.
>>>>>> 2) Preparing a new hard drive for use with Apple OS X <<<<<<
