OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual Leitfaden

Mercury Elite® Pro

FireWire® 800 / USB 3.0 / eSATA

ASSEMBLY MANUAL & USER GUIDE

OWC MERCURY ELITE PRO TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................1

1.1 MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

1.1.1 Apple® Mac® Requirements

1.1.2 PC Requirements

1.1.3 Supported Hard Drives

1.2 PACKAGE CONTENTS

1.3 ABOUT THIS MANUAL

1.4 REAR VIEW

1.4.1 Connection

1.5 LED INDICATOR

DEVICE SETUP...................................................................................................3

2.1 QUICK START

2.2 ASSEMBLY

2.3 LARGE VOLUME SUPPORT AND FIREWIRE BOOTING IN MAC OS

APPENDIX...........................................................................................................8

3.1 FORMATTING

3.2 UNMOUNTING DRIVES

3.3 TROUBLESHOOTING

3.4 ABOUT DATA BACKUP

3.5 ONLINE RESOURCES

3.6 TECHNICAL SUPPORT HOURS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

OWC MERCURY ELITE PRO INTRODUCTION

1.1.3 Supported Hard Drives

• Any 3.5” SATA hard drive

INTRODUCTION

1.3 ABOUT THIS MANUAL

Firmware, images, and descriptions may vary slightly between this manual and the unit

shipped. Functions and features may change depending on the ﬁrmware version. Please

visit the product webpage for the most recent product speciﬁcations.

1.1.1 Apple® Mac® Requirements

• eSATA: OS X® 10.3 or later

• FireWire: OS X 10.2 or later

• USB 3.0 (backwards compatible to

USB 2.0): OS X 10.2 or later

1.1.2 PC Requirements

• eSATA: Windows® XP or later

• FireWire: Windows XP or later

• USB 3.0 (backwards compatible to USB

2.0): Windows XP or later

1.1 MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

1.2 PACKAGE CONTENTS

FireWire 800

(1394b) cable

eSATA cable USB 3.0

(A to Standard-B) cable

Mercury Elite Pro

(with vertical stand)

Power supply and

power cable

INTRODUCTION

OWC MERCURY ELITE PRO INTRODUCTION

1.4 REAR VIEW

1.4.1 Connection

1. Plug the power supply into a power outlet and into the Mercury Elite Pro.

2. Connect the FireWire 800, USB 3.0, or eSATA cable – appropriate for the interface that

your computer supports – into the drive and computer.

NOTE:

• Only one interface (FireWire 800, USB 3.0, or eSATA) at a time can be used.

• For the safe removal of your drive and to ensure that no data is lost, always unmount

the drive from your operating system before powering oﬀ the Mercury Elite Pro.

• In order for the computer to access volumes larger than 2TB, the operating system

needs to support large volumes (e.g., Windows Vista or OS X 10.4 and above).

1.5 LED INDICATOR

The Mercury Elite Pro has a blue LED at the front of the enclosure.

The LED emits a solid blue light when the unit is powered on, and

it ﬂashes during hard drive activity.

Power Input

eSATA

USB 3.0

FW800

On/Oﬀ Switch

OWC MERCURY ELITE PRO DEVICE SETUP

2.1 QUICK START

If you purchased the Mercury Elite Pro as an empty enclosure, proceed to Section 2.2. If

you purchased the Mercury Elite Pro with a drive installed, the OWC Drive Guide formatting

utility has been installed. Follow the steps below to format your drive (requires OS X 10.4 or

later on Mac, Windows XP or later on PC). If you do not wish to use Drive Guide to format

your Mercury Elite Pro, you can use the formatting utility of your choice instead.

See Section 3.1 for more options.

1. Connect your drive to your computer using the proper cable, then turn on your drive. If

you prefer to use a diﬀerent formatting utility, do so at this time and skip the rest of these

instructions.

2. Your drive will show up as “OWC SETUP”. Open your drive to view its contents.

3. Open the “OWC Drive Guide” application.

4. Follow the simple on-screen instructions to complete the formatting process.

5. Once the formatting is ﬁnished the drive is ready to use.

DEVICE SETUP

2.2 ASSEMBLY

NOTICE: The following assembly instructions are written for users who purchased the

Mercury Elite Pro as an empty enclosure. The instructions show how to open the Mercury

Elite Pro in order to install a drive. If you purchased the Mercury Elite Pro with a drive already

installed, opening the Mercury Elite Pro before the expiration of the original warranty

will VOID the warranty. If you wish to remove or replace a drive after the expiration of the

original warranty, you may do so at that time.

1. Remove the Mercury Elite Pro from the retail box and the protective plastic bag. Set

the Mercury Elite Pro on its side and look at the bottom of the enclosure. Use a Phillips

screwdriver to remove the two screws, circled below in red.

OWC MERCURY ELITE PRO DEVICE SETUP

3. When removed from the outer case, the inner chassis will appear as shown below. Remove

the packet of screws and use them as directed later in the assembly instructions.

2. Once the two screws are removed, slide the inner chassis out the front of the outer case,

as shown below. Start by pushing on the back of the inner chassis, then when you are able

to grip the front grill of the inner chassis, pull it out the rest of the way.

OWC MERCURY ELITE PRO DEVICE SETUP

4. To install the hard drive, slide it into the black SATA connector inside the Mercury Elite Pro.

You may need to move the blue and black LED cables to the side in order to make room

for the hard drive. Make sure the drive is ﬁrmly seated before proceeding.

5. Using the four screws from the packet you removed from the inner chassis, fasten the

hard drive to the inner chassis. There are two screw holes on each side of the inner chassis,

circled below in red.

OWC MERCURY ELITE PRO DEVICE SETUP

6. Slide the inner chassis back into the outer case, as shown below.

7. Once the front grill of the inner chassis sits ﬂush with the edge of the outer case, turn the

Mercury Elite Pro on its side. Use the two smaller screws you removed in Step 1, and re-

fasten the outer case to the inner chassis.

This completes the assembly process.

OWC MERCURY ELITE PRO DEVICE SETUP

2.3 LARGE VOLUME SUPPORT AND FIREWIRE BOOTING IN MAC OS

Your Mercury Elite Pro is preconﬁgured with a setting known as “large volume support”

enabled. Enabling large volume support allows the Mercury Elite Pro to utilize the full

capacity of drives larger than 2TB.

When large volume support is enabled (switch set to “On”), PowerPC Macs and Intel Macs

introduced before 2008 will not be able to boot to the Mercury Elite Pro over the FireWire

connection. This is a limitation of these computers.

Mac models introduced in 2008 and later are fully capable of using the Mercury Elite Pro as

a boot drive over FireWire, even with large volume support enabled. Note that this only af-

fects FireWire booting. All Intel Macs are still able to boot to the Mercury Elite Pro over USB,

regardless of large volume support.

If your Mercury Elite Pro contains a drive 2TB or smaller in capacity and you wish to use it as a

FireWire boot drive for a pre-2008 Mac, please contact OWC technical support for assistance

with disabling large volume support (see Section 3.6 for more information).

OWC MERCURY ELITE PRO APPENDIX

APPENDIX

3.1 FORMATTING

For formatting information, including instructions on how to format your Mercury Elite Pro

for Mac or Windows, go to: h t t p:// www.macsales.com/format

3.2 UNMOUNTING DRIVES

To properly unmount any connected drive from your computer, try the options below.

For OS X systems:

There are several methods to umount disks with OS X systems. You can drag the icon for

the disk you wish to unmount to the trash can, or right-click the disk icon on the desktop,

then click “Eject”. You can also eject the disk in the sidebar of a Finder window, or by

selecting the drive icon on the Desktop then pressing Command-E.

For Windows systems:

1. Go to the System Tray (located in the lower right corner of your screen). Click on the

“Eject” icon (a small green arrow over a hardware image).

2. A message will appear, detailing the devices that the “Eject” icon controls, i.e., “Safely

remove...” Click on this prompt.

3. You will then see a message that says, “Safe to Remove Hardware.” It is now safe to

disconnect the Mercury Elite Pro from the computer.

3.3 TROUBLESHOOTING

Begin your troubleshooting by verifying that the power cable is connected to the Mercury

Elite Pro and to a power source. If the power cable is connected to a power strip, make sure

that the power switch on the strip is turned on.

Then, simply verify that both ends of your cables are properly plugged into the computer

and the Mercury Elite Pro. If the Mercury Elite Pro is still not working properly, try connecting

to another interface such as the USB connection and see if the device works properly. You

can also connect the Mercury Elite Pro to a diﬀerent computer.

If problems persist, consult our online collection of frequently asked questions (h t t p://

www.macsales.com/FAQ) or see Section 3.6 for information on contacting OWC

technical support.

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