Installation

Installing hard drives into the Rosewill RX82-U enclosure is very simple. We will be using two 250GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA2 drives for our testing. The drives will mount using the four screw holes on the bottom of the drives, as shown in the red boxes.


With each tray removed, insert the four screws through the bottom of the tray into the holes on the hard drive, making sure to position the connectors at the rear of the tray. When the screws are tightened, the heads sit flush with the tray, and that makes sure the screws do not snag on anything when inserted. Notice the notch at the back of the tray is perfectly placed so that the connections on the drive are exposed, but still somewhat protected.


Each of the trays can now be inserted into the enclosure. The silver flap on the front of the tray needs to be extended until the drive is seated fully. Incidentally, Rosewill sells additional trays so that multiple drives can be preinstalled and swapped out as needed.

Software Installation

The Rosewill RX82-U does not need any software installed in order to run, with the possible exception of drivers for Windows 98. After the device is plugged into the USB port and powered on, the drives need to be initialized in Disk Management just like any other hard drive. With the JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) functionality, each drive is seen as an individual in the computer.