OWC Mercury Helios+E2, 240GB Technical Information

Assembly and Users ManualOWC Mercury Helios PCIeThunderbolt Expansion Chassis

Note: Your Mac can be on or o when connecting the Thunderbolt cable. If the PCIe card you are connecting needs to poll external devices before being

Quick Set-Up  1.Heliosdoesnotrequiredrivers. 2.ToverifythatyourPCIecardisbeingrecognizedbyyourMac andisworkingcorrectly

•Awindowwillappearonthescreen.Clickon“MoreInfo…” •IfyourcomputerisrunningMacOSX10.7.xorMacOSX10.8.x, an“AboutThis

3.Clickon“Thunderbolt”toseeHelios. 12

4.Clickon“PCICards”toseethePCIeexpansioncardinstalledinHelios.Note: If the status of “Tunnel Compatible” (as seen to the right pane above

Note: Other information about the PCIe card installed in Helios may be seen in another section. For example, the PCIe card we used in this set-up is

General Usage Guidelines and FAQTheOWCMercuryHeliosPCIeThunderboltExpansionChassis: •WillonlypoweronwhenDCpowerandanactiveThunderbo

Q. My PCIe card has lower performance than expected when installed in Helios. •Thunderboltoersupto10Gb/sbandwidthforPCIe.Thisis more

AMiniDisplayPortporthasasymbolwithtwoverticalbarssurroundingasquare.AThunderboltportismarkedwithalightningboltsymbol.3. Checkt

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION 1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 1 PACKAGE CONTENTS 2 PORT VIEW 2 ANTI-STATIC HANDLING 3ASSEMBLY

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Package Contents1. Helios2. PowerbrickandcablePort View①②DC Power Thunderbolt Ports PCIe Expansion Slot 2

Anti-Static handlingHeliosandPCIecardsarestatic-sensitivedevices.Theyaresusceptibletoinvisibledamageifnotprotectedduringtheassembly

3.RemovethetwoPhillipsPH2screwsfromthebottomofHelios.4.TurnHeliosbackoverandplaceitonit’sfeet.Usingyourngers,pushtheinner

5.FlipHeliosoverandorientitasshowninthepicture.RemovethePhillipsPH2screwfromthePCIeexpansionslot.YouarereadytoinstallyourP

7.MakesurethePCIecardisfullyseated.8.ReplacethePCIebracketscrew.Donotfullytightenthescrew. 6

CarefullyliftuptheedgeofthecarduntilthebracketisstoppedbythePCIebracketscrew,thenfullytightenthePCIebracketscrew.9.Slidethe

10.Replacethetworearscrews.11.FlipHeliosoverandplugintheDCpowercableandThunderboltcable.Note: Helios will only power on when it has