How to connect STARDOM Storage to your Mac whether it's a RAID or NON-RAID

How to connect STARDOM Storage to your Mac whether it's a RAID or a single drive or individual volumes. Connecting and mounting a drive is a bit more than just connecting it and having it mount on your desktop. Although it's not a secret that this information should be known, some people aren't aware of the fact that the process of mounting an external hard drive needs to be done before the drive is ready for use.

We'll cut to the chase, since most external hard drives are pre-formatted as NTFS; Mac OS X can only read data from the hard drive; but it can’t write anything to it (without 3rd party software.

You'll need to format your new STARDOM hard drive or SSD solution before it will mount on your Mac

Step 1. Connect your STARDOM Storage (via the interface you want to use, i.e. Fire Wire 800) with the installed hard drive(s) or SSD(s to your Mac.

Step 2. Click on Utilities; or press the Shift + Command + U shortcut key:

Step 3. Find Disk Utility and double click on it:

Step 3. Select your external hard drive on the left hand side of Disk Utility:

Step 4. Choose the Erase tab on the right hand side of the screen, then choose the Volume Format you want. We suggest choosing Mac OS Extended (Journaled). If you want PCs to be able to connect to your STARDOM Storage, then the MS-DOS(FAT) is the one you want. (it formats the hard drive to FAT32).

Step 5. Click on the Erase button to format the hard drive. After that, your Storage should mount and you can begin to use it. Pretty simple really, but these steps are necessary to mount your external drive to your Mac.

We hope this information is helpful in mounting any STARDOM Storage product on a Mac or any external hard drive on a Mac for that matter.

For more information on STARDOM Storage products, please visit our website at: STARDOM Storage Solutions