Macally Computer Drive G S350SUAB2 User Manual

IEEE 1394A and 1394B FireWire/Hi-Speed USB2.0/eSATA  
3.5” Serial ATA Hard Drive Enclosure  
G-S350SUAB2  
User's Manual  
Introducing IEEE 1394A and 1394B FireWire/Hi-Speed USB2.0/eSATA  
3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure - G-S350SUAB2  
Thank you for choosing the G-S350SUAB2 aluminum IEEE 1394A and 1394B  
FireWire/ Hi-Speed USB2.0/eSATA 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure. This Aluminum  
enclosure supports 3.5” SATA Hard drive up to 3TB. It is simple to install  
and comes with all the parts you need to create an external hard drive.  
Based on IEEE 1394A and 1394B FireWire/SATA II, SATA I, USB2.0 and USB1.1  
specifications the transfer rates are up to:  
SATA II - 3.0Gb/s  
SATA I - 1.5Gb/s  
1394A - 400Mb/s  
1394B - 800Mb/s  
USB2.0 - 480Mb/s  
USB1.1 - 12Mb/s  
G-S350SUAB2 can support the speed specification listed above, however its  
transfer rates are possible to be lower, and will vary depending upon the  
Operating System, type of SATA, 1394A,1394B and USB host controller, SATA  
Hard Drive and computer hardware.  
About This Guide  
Before you begin using the G-S350SUAB2, be sure to read this manual in its  
entirety.  
This guide contains:  
! Introducing IEEE1394A and 1394B FireWire/Hi-Speed USB2.0/eSATA  
! 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure  
! Hardware Installation  
! Software Installation  
! Hard Drive Partition and Format in PC Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows7  
! FAQ  
System Requirements  
! MacOS 9.2 and MacOS X 10.1 to 10.7 for USB and Firewire connection  
! MacOS X 10. to 10.7 for SATA connection  
! Windows 2000, Windows XP ,Windows VISTA and Windows7  
! Any desktop or Notebook computer with an available SATA, FireWire or  
USB port  
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Package Contents  
The G-S350SUAB2-Aluminum IEEE 1394A and IEEE 1394B FireWire/  
Hi-Speed USB2.0 /eSATA 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure package includes the following  
software and documentation:  
! G-S350SUAB2 enclosure  
! 6 pin-6 pin1394A FireWire Cable  
! 9 pin-9 pin1394B FireWire Cable  
! USB2.0 cable  
! Software CD containing the drivers and manual  
! AC/DC Adapter  
! eSATA cable(optional)  
Safety Precautions  
ON INSTALLATION  
1. To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this  
product to rain, water or moisture.  
2. Do not place any containers with liquids (drinking glass, flower  
vase, etc.) or containers with small metal parts (paper clips, etc.)  
on top of the unit.  
3. According to standard industry practice, surge protection is  
recommended for all telecommunications devices. Surge suppressors  
and/or line conditioning should be used on the input power supply.  
ON OPERATION  
! Do not move the chassis during operation. Doing so may cause a  
malfunction.  
! Protect the unit from shocks and vibrations.  
! Do not use the subsystem in areas exposed to oily smoke or  
steam,such as a kitchen or close to a humidifier.  
! Do not use the subsystem in locations exposed to rain or splashes of  
water, such as outdoors, in a bathroom, or close to a window.  
! Do not use the subsystem on an unstable or slanted surface without  
proper support.  
! Do not expose the unit to direct sunlight or hot air where the  
temperature could exceed 45ºC, or very cold locations where the  
temperature is below 0ºC.  
! Keep the power cord away from hot appliances.  
! Do not touch the power cord with wet hands.  
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ON TRANSPORTATION  
Save the packing materials as you may need to repack and transport the  
unit at a later date.  
Always remove the disc before moving the unit.  
ON POWER SOURCES  
When you are not using the unit for a long time, disconnect the power  
cord from the unit.  
To unplug the AC power adapter from the wall outlet, grasp the adapter  
itself. Do not pull the cord.  
Warning  
If any of the following conditions occur, immediately disconnect the  
power cord from the wall outlet and contact your dealer or an authorized  
service station. Continuing to use the computer involves the risk of fire  
and electric shock.  
! Smoke or unusual smell is coming from the subsystem.  
! Water has entered the unit, or the unit has become wet.  
! A foreign object has entered the unit.  
! The unit has been dropped or the front panel or frame has been  
damaged.  
! The power cable is damaged, causing wire breakage or exposed  
leads.  
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Hardware Basic  
Precaution:  
Please make sure your hand is dry and remove static from your body by  
touching metal parts of your computer chassis.  
1 — Back Panel  
2 — 2 -6mm Screws  
5 — 6 -5mm Screws  
8 — Base Tray  
3 — Enclosure Sleeve  
6 — 8 -4mm Screws  
4 — Base Tray bridge  
7 — Front Panel  
9 — Power on/off button  
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Hardware Installation  
Note: The diagrams below uses the G-S350UAB2 Enclosure as an example.  
1. Unscrew to loosen the Enclosure Back Panel. Remove the Back Panel.  
2. Use your fingers to push the Base Tray out.  
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3. Pull the Enclosure Sleeve out from the Base Tray and place it aside.  
4. Align the black Power/SATA connector on the hard drive to the black  
female SATA connector on the Base plate bridge, and push the drive into  
the connector completely.  
5. Secure the HDD to the Base Tray with 2 hard drive screws.  
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6. Push the Base Tray into the Enclosure Sleeve.  
7. Secure the Base Tray and Enclosure Sleeve with two 6mm screws.  
Front Sleev
8. Plug the AC/DC adapter into the Enclosure, and connect the unit to your  
computer using a USB cable ,Firewire cable or eSATA cable. Then press  
the Power Button to turn it on.  
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Software Installation for Mac  
SATA Connection for MacOS X 10.2 and above  
At the time when this manual is written, none of Mac computers has built-in  
external SATA port accessible to connect G-S350SUAB2 enclosure. In order  
to take advantage of high performance via SATA connection, current  
solution is to add a third-party Mac compatible SATA II or SATA I to PCI or  
ExpressCard host controller adapter with external SATA port (with “L”  
shaped key type) or eSATA port. When external SATA port is available,  
please follow steps below to use G-S350SUAB2 enclosure:  
1. When computer is powered off, attach G-S350SUAB2 to the SATA port  
of the computer.  
2. Power on G-S350SUAB2 first, then turn on the computer.  
3. After Mac OS boots up, it will recognize it automatically, ask you to  
initialize the new drive if it was not initialized yet, and mount the  
drive on desktop.  
Above described connection and power sequence is referred to as Hot  
Boot. There are total five power sequence modes by which an external  
hard drive can possibly be used with a computer system. They are defined  
as follows:  
Hot Boot -Computer is off, enclosure is on and is attached to computer.  
Boot up system.  
Cold Boot - Computer is off, enclosure is off and is attached to computer.  
Boot up system completely, then turn on the enclosure.  
Hot Plug - System is up and running, enclosure is turned on then attached  
to computer.  
Cold Plug - System is up and running, enclosure is off then attached to  
computer. Enclosure is turned on.  
Power Cycle - System is up and running, enclosure is on and mounted on  
the computer. Then, power off the enclosure, wait for several seconds and  
turn the enclosure back on.  
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It is important to note that different SATA host adapters handle the power  
sequence in different way. Some support all five power sequence modes,  
the other can only support Hot Boot. G-S350SUAB2 supports all five power  
sequence modes. To find out what your SATA host adapter is capable of,  
please contact the manufacturer of SATA host adapter, or simply try all  
power sequence mode yourself.  
Before disconnecting the SATA drive cable from the computer, we  
recommend you to shut down the computer first, because current system  
driver and SATA host specification do not make SATA hard drive 100%  
removable like USB or Firewire hard drive.  
FireWire and USB Connection for MacOS 9.2 and MacOS X  
When the Enclosure is connected to the computer, MacOS X will  
recognize it automatically, initialize it (if the drive is not initialized) and  
mount the drive to desktop. All five power sequence modes are supported  
in Firewire or USB connection.  
Note: MacOS X provides a Disk Utility to create multiple volumes, which  
is located in Utilities folder inside Applications folder.  
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Software Installation for PC  
SATA Connection for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7  
Some PC computers nowadays are equipped with external SATA ports for  
peripheral connectivity, or provide a SATA cable and bracket to route  
internal SATA port on motherboard to external port. Otherwise, to take  
advantage of high performance SATA connection, you need to add a third-  
party SATA II or SATA I host controller adapter with external SATA port the  
“L” shaped key type). When external SATA port is available, please follow  
steps below to use G-S350SUAB2 enclosure:  
1. When computer is powered off, attach G-S350SUAB2 to  
the SATA port of the computer.  
2. Power on G-S350SUAB2 first, then turn on the computer.  
3. After Windows boots up, it will load, the driver and recognize the  
Enclosure automatically. If you don't see a new(SATA) drive in My  
Computer, probably the SATA drive needs to be partitioned and  
formatted first.  
Above described connection and power sequence is referred to as Hot  
Boot. There are total five power sequence modes, Hot Boot, Cold Boot,  
Hot Plug, Cold Plug, and Power Cycle, by which an external hard drive can  
possibly be used with a computer system. Please refer to the section  
“SATA Connection for MacOS X 10.2 and above” for definition.  
It is important to note that different SATA host adapters handle the power  
sequence in different way. Some support all five power sequence modes,  
the other can only support Hot Boot. G-S350SUAB2 supports all five  
power sequence modes. To find out what your SATA host adapter is  
capable of, please contact the manufacturer of SATA host adapter, or  
simply try all power sequence mode yourself.  
Firewire and USB Connection For Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7  
When the enclosure is connected to the computer and power on, the  
system will start installing for the proper driver. Please follow the on-  
screen instruction to complete the driver installation.  
If you do not see the new drive letter added in My Computer after the driver  
finishes loading, the reason could be the hard disk such as a brand new  
one has no partition and format yet. In this case, please follow the  
procedures in next section to partition and format it before using.  
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HARD DRIVE PARTITION and FORMAT PROCEDURES in  
PC WINDOWS 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7  
If you can see a new entry under Disk drives of Device Manager, you are  
ready to partition and format the drive.  
1. Open Control panel, “Administrative Tools” and “Computer  
management”.  
Step 2  
2. Click on “Disk Management”.  
Step 3  
3. “Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard” windows will show up and  
click “Next”.  
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Step 4  
4. Write a signature to the new drive, click “Next”.  
Step 5  
5. Click “Finish” to close the wizard.  
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Step 6  
6. Select the new “Unallocated” disk, and then right click to choose  
“Create partition”.  
Step 7  
7. Follow the onscreen instruction to partition and fully format the drive.  
*note: If it assigns a new hard drive letter but format dose not run automatically,  
please exit “Computer Management”, and find the new drive letter in My  
computer to format it completely.  
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Frequently Asked Questions  
Q1, What are SATA, SATA I, SATA II, eSATA any way? How are they  
related to G-S350SUAB2 enclosure?  
A1: SATA stands for Serial ATA, in contrast to old Parallel ATA (IDE, EIDE,  
ATA and ATAPI) technology. SATA starts with 1.5Gb/s specification, and  
evolves to 3.0Gb/s specification, which is commonly referred to as SATA II.  
Hence, original SATA 1.5Gb/s is called SATA I to distinguish with SATA II  
3.0Gb/s.  
Initially SATA was designed as an internal or inside-the-box interface  
technology for storage device like HDD. Both SATA I and SATA II hard  
drives use plug and receptacle interface with “L” shaped key as shown  
below.  
This connectors and cable(flat) with “L” shaped key support both SATA  
1.5Gb/s and 3.0Gb/s, however the cable length is limited to 1m(around 3.3  
feet) maximum. When this manual was written, majority of SATA ports  
provided by computers or add-on SATA host adapters are the receptacle  
with “L” shaped key.  
As shown below, it is more and more common to find a new type of SATA  
receptacle in the system or PCI/ExpressCard host card and plug(without  
“L” shaped key), called eSATA. eSATA becomes a standard for external  
SATA peripherals. Our G-S350SUAB2 has eSATA port built in. Depending on  
the type of SATA port you have in the computer, please get the proper  
SATA cable to connect them.  
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Q2. How should I disconnect G-S350SUAB2 safely from the computer?  
After I disconnect the SATA enclosure, why does the drive icon still  
stay on the desktop of MacOS X?  
A2: For Firewire or USB connection in Windows PC, please click “Safely  
remove mass storage device - Drive letter” line inside Safely Remove  
Hardware icon on the System Tray; In Mac computer, please trash the  
external drive icon. Then disconnect G-S350SUAB2 from the system.  
In SATA connection, depending on the SATA host controller(and  
sometimes OS) you use, some controllers support hot plug and unplug  
function, some don't. You have to find out its capability. To prevent data  
corruption, the safest way to disconnect SATA cable or power off G-  
S350SUAB2 is to shut down computer first.  
SATA drive (or SATA connection) is not treated essentially as removable  
device to the most of systems if not all. That is why there is no eject icon  
associated to SATA drive in Finder of Mac OS X, and System Tray in  
Windows has no Remove Hardware option for SATA drive. Therefore,  
when the SATA drive is connected, some system still keeps SATA drive  
icon, you just won't be able to use the drive until you connect it back.  
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Q3. How is SATA compared to USB and Firewire in speed? What  
performance gain can one expect by using SATA connection?  
A3: Following chart shows the specification data rate(MBps) and  
Overhead among USB, Firewire and SATA.  
Next table compares real world benchmark between USB, Firewire and  
SATA drives:  
USB  
1394  
Seria  
Raw Interface  
speed  
480Mbps  
400Mbps  
1500Mbps  
Benchmark  
comparison  
64K read  
31.6MB/sec  
26.5MB/sec  
33.5MB/sec  
34.8MB/sec  
26.7MB/sec  
36.2MB/sec  
42.4MB/sec  
56.2MB/sec  
Benchmark  
comparison  
64K write  
Burst  
Transfer  
Rate  
111.3MB/sec  
Table: Comparison of interface speeds and data transfer  
rates external disk drive interfaces  
S350SUAB2 in your application might be higher or lower depending upon  
the hard drive used, SATA and USB host and computer hardware. In our  
test, we have seen over 60MB/s sequential read and write speed in  
SATA connection. SATA is the better choice for storage device.  
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