Macally Computer Drive PHR 100SU User Manual

USB2.0 Hi-Speed/ SATA II Enclosure  
for 3.5” Serial ATA Hard Drive  
PHR-100SU  
User’s Manual  
Introducing SATA II/USB2.0 Enclosure  
Thank you for choosing the PHR-100SU aluminum SATA II/USB2.0 3.5"  
Hard Drive Enclosure. This is an aluminum enclosure which supports 3.5”  
SATA I or SATA II hard drive. It is simple to install and comes with all the  
parts you need to create an external SATA II/USB2.0 device.  
Based on 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  
USB2.0 - 480Mb/s  
USB1.1 - 12Mb/s  
PHR-100SU can support the speed specification listed above, however its  
transfer rates are possible to be lower, and will vary depending upon the  
type of SATA and USB host controller, SATA Hard Drive and computer hard-  
ware.  
About This Guide  
Before you begin using the PHR-100SU, be sure to read this manual in its  
entirety.  
This guide contains:  
SATA II/USB2.0 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure  
Hardware Installation  
Software Installation  
System Requirements  
Windows PC, Macintosh desktop or NoteBook computer with available  
SATA and/or USB port  
MacOS X 10.2 and above for SATA connection, MacOS 9.2 and OS X for  
USB connection  
Windows 98SE/ Windows 2000/ Windows XP/ Windows Server 2003  
* SATA connection is not supported under Windows98SE  
Pentium II/ compatible and above with 128MB RAM  
Both SATA II host port and SATA II hard drive are required for SATA II  
transfer speed  
USB2.0 host port is required for Hi-Speed USB2.0 transfer speed  
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Package Contents  
The PHR-100SU aluminum SATA II/USB2.0 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure pack-  
age includes the following items:  
The software CD contains the drivers and manual  
USB2.0 cable  
Serial ATA cable  
SATA II/USB2.0 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure  
AC/DC Adapter  
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.  
Power  
ON/OFF Switch  
USB  
Connector  
SATA  
Connector  
Power  
Connector  
Back Panel  
Base Plate  
Enclosure Sleeve  
LED  
Package Content:  
Enclosure Sleeve  
Base Plate  
1 USB Data Cable  
1 SATA Data Cable  
Back Panel  
2 - 5mm Diameter Screws  
4 - Anti-Shock Mount with 10mm diameter screw  
AC Adapter  
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Hardware Installation  
Enclosure Sleeve  
Front  
Back  
Hi-Speed USB2.0/SATA II  
PHR-100SU for SATA Drive  
Back Panel  
Front Panel  
Note: The diagrams below are using the FireWire/USB2.0 Enclosure as an  
example, installation procedures for PHR-100SU are similar.  
1. Do not connect AC Adapter to the enclosure. unscrew to loosen the Back  
Panel and remove the Back Panel from the Enclosure.  
2. Use your thumb to push the Base Plate out.  
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3. Set the Enclosure Sleeve aside.  
4. Install 4 white Anti-Shock Mounts w/10mm screw into both sides of the  
hard drive. Do not tighten the screws yet.  
5. Connect both power and SATA cable from Base Plate bridge into the back  
of SATA hard drive  
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6. (1)Slide the hard drive into the front Base Plate first and (2) press down  
on the hard drive, make sure all 4 Anti-Shock Mounts sit inside the  
Support Slot.  
7. Pressing down the hard drive and tighten all 4 screws to secure the hard  
drive to the Base Plate.  
Front Sleeve  
hard drive  
Base Plate  
8. Align the Base Plate to the Sleeve Slot. Slide and push the hard  
drive/Base Plate into the Enclosure Sleeve  
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9. Install the Back Panel to the Enclosure..  
10. Secure the Back Panel with the 5mm diameter screw  
11. Plug the AC adapter into the Enclosure to power it on. You may now  
connect the unit to your computer using a USB or SATA Cable.  
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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 PHR-100SU 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 host controller adapter  
with external SATA port with “L” shaped key type. When external SATA port  
is available, please follow steps below to use PHR-100SU enclosure:  
1, When computer is powered off, attach PHR-100SU to the SATA port of  
the computer.  
2, Power on PHR-100SU 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. PHR-100SU 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 recom-  
mend 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.  
USB Connection for Mac  
When the Enclosure is connected to the computer, MacOS 9.2 and OSX 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  
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/Server 2003  
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 PHR-100SU enclosure:  
1, When computer is powered off, attach PHR-100SU to the SATA port of  
the computer.  
2, Power on PHR-100SU 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. PHR-100SU 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.  
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USB Connection for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003  
Plug the USB cable into any available port, Windows 2000, XP or Server  
2003 will start installing the proper driver. Please follow the on-screen  
instruction to complete the driver installation. (You may need the Windows  
CD during this installation.)  
USB Connection for Windows 98SE  
Power on the USB2.0 Enclosure and plug the USB cable into your USB2.0  
port. The “Add New Hardware Wizard” should automatically appear as  
shown above. Click “Next” when this window appears.  
Choose “Search for the best driver for your device.” And click “Next”.  
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Select on the “Specify a location” option and type in “x:\PHR-100SU\DRI-  
VERS” where “x” is the letter of the CD-ROM drive with the Drivers CD  
inserted or click on “Browse” to choose the corresponding driver folder in  
the CD. Then click “Next”.  
Windows will search the location and find the appropriate driver from the  
Drivers CD. Click “Next”.  
The window shown above indicates that the driver installation has been  
completed. Click “Finish” to end the installation.  
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Note: If you don’t see the new drive letter added in My Computer after  
driver is loaded properly, the reason could be the hard disk has no par-  
tition and format yet, please partition and format the drive in the enclo-  
sure before using it.  
Hard Drive Partition and Format procedures in PC:  
It is recommended to do the partition and format under “USB connection”.  
For Windows 98SE  
If a new hard disk icon dose not appear in “My Computer”, check device  
manager under system in the control panel. Then double click on  
“Disk Drives” to see if a new entry appears.  
If you can see a new entry as shown (Example, WDC WD80 OBB-32BSA0)  
above, you are ready to partition and format the drive.  
Please open MS-DOS prompt, run DOS command FDISK to partition the  
new hard drive. Then, disconnect and power off PHR-100SU. Turn on PHR-  
100SU, reconnect it to computer’s USB port. You will see a new drive icon in  
“My computer”. Format it before using the new drive.  
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For Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003  
If you can see a new entry under Disk drives of Device Manager, you are  
ready to partition and format the drive. Please open Control panel,  
“Administrative Tools” and “Computer management”, click on “Disk  
Management”. Follow the on-screen instruction to continue, make sure to  
select the unallocated (newly added) disk to partition and format.  
Frequently Asked Questions  
Q1, What are SATA, SATA I, SATA II, eSATA any way? How are they  
related to PHR-100SU 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 tech-  
nology 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 pro-  
vided by computers or add-on SATA host adapters are the receptacle with  
“L” shaped key. Our PHR-100SU includes an 80cm cable with SATA connec-  
tor with “L” shaped key to support majority SATA port in the system.  
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It is worthwhile to mention a new type of SATA receptacle and plug(without  
“L” shaped key), called eSATA for external SATA connectivity. If you have an  
eSATA port, you need to purchase a SATA-to-eSATA cable in order to use  
PHR-100SU in SATA connection.  
Q2. How should I disconnect PHR-100SU safely from the computer?  
After I disconnect the SATA enclosure, why does the drive icon still  
stay on the desktop of MacOS X?  
A2: In USB connection, in Windows PC, please click “Safely remove USB  
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 PHR-100SU 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 PHR-100SU 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 per-  
formance 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  
Serial  
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  
111.3MB/sec  
Benchmark  
comparison  
64K write  
Burst  
Transfer  
Rate  
Table: Comparison of interface speeds and data transfer  
rates external disk drive interfaces  
100SU 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 connec-  
tion. SATA is the better choice for storage device.  
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