SY-PCI40037 

How to use for the first time Guide.

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Installation
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First thing you want to do is connect the card appropriately.

Connect the 4pin floppy power feed to the adapter from the power supply.

Connect a SATA cable from the SATAHOST SATA port on the adapter to a SATA port on the motherboard 

(Recommend connecting to a SATA port that supports Port Multiplying; which is on a SATA controller card)


Connect 1 SATA Cable on HHD1 and HHD2 to the respective SATA hard drives

Note:
 
HHD1 = Port 1 = ID Disk 0
HHD2 = Port 2 = ID Disk 1

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Warning
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Backup data before using any switch functions with this controller card.

Creating RAID 0 or 1 will require that both disks have no data.

There is not function to recover the data if the RAID fails in the future is using RAID 0.

Restarting the computer after creating a RAID 0, 1, or JBOD will NOT affect the partition already created.
Your partition will be safe when you restart the computer with the same switch functions.

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Part 1.

The first function you will need to do is Clear Mode: OFF OFF ON

Boot up the computer.

Navigate to Disk Management utility.
(Start button > Right-click Computer > Manage > Disk Management)

The Disks may need to be initialized to MBR/GPT.
Once confirmed, continue.
You may see the health of the disks you connected to be black.
This means the Disks are offline or has unallocated data.

Our objective here is to make sure all the disks are ONLINE and HAVE unallocated data.

Right-click the name of the Disk# and select 'online' to initialized disk.
Right-click the BLUE Health data and delete the volume to be unallocated DATA. 


Now shut down the computer.

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Part 2.

Info on Switch Functions in a nutshell.

RAID 0 = Combines both disks into 1 partition, faster performance.
However no redundancy (not able to backup data).  

RAID 1 = Combines both disks into 1 partition. Slower performance.
However, data written on the RAID 1 partition is copied to all disks in the array.

JBOD = Combines all data capacity of both disks into 1 partition. Example: 1TB + 1TB = 2TB partition.

CLEAR = Must use this mode before utilizing RAID functionality.  Boot up with Clear mode, shut down, then switch to desired RAID mode.  Also, using this mode will allow Port Multiplying.

No ACTION = Does not do anything. Functions as a 1 SATA port card.  No RAID created.


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Instructions to Create RAID 0, RAID 1, JBOD (RAID 1 recommended)
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To create RAID 0, RAID 1, or JBOD, you MUST do the above instructions for CLEAR mode, otherwise, your RAID array data will NOT be able to be assessed when not connected to the controller card. 

Please perform the above instructions for clear mode in Part 1 before continuing.

Since everything is installed hardware wise, the next thing to do is adjust the Switches on the Card to the function to RAID 0, RAID 1, or JBOD. 

Once the switch settings are set, boot up the Operating System.

Instructions for Windows:
Navigate to Disk Management utility.
(Start button > Right-click Computer > Manage > Disk Management)

Our objective here is to Initialize the newly made RAID partition and Create/Manage the Virtual Disk partition to be recognized by Windows.

The Disks may need to be initialized to MBR/GPT.

Once confirmed, continue.
You may see the health of the disks you connected to be black.
This means the Disks are offline or has unallocated data.

Right-click the name of the Disk# and select 'online' to initialized disk.
Right-click the black Health data to create a 'simple volume' which creates a partition for the OS to see. 
You must have a Drive letter assigned for the OS to see the disk.

You have now sucessfully created your RAID 0 or RAID 1 array.

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Step 3.

Last thing to do is to confirm everything is saved and ready for real-time use.

Restart the computer to save changes.

As a reminder:
Restarting the computer after creating a RAID 0, 1, or JBOD will NOT affect the partition already created.

Your partition will be safe when you restart the computer with the same switch functions.