Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS Quick Installation Guide Guide d'installation rapide R24.0605.00 rev 0.1 05/06 Contents English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Installation.................................................................................................................................................5 Support.................................................................................................................................................... 18 Français. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Installation............................................................................................................................................... 19 Assistance................................................................................................................................................32 3 4 English Installation English Package Contents · · · USR8700 Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS Power Cord Ethernet Cable · · · Installation CD-ROM Quick Installation Guide DiskSafe Express recovery CD Physical Features Front The Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS system has the following status LEDs: 1 2 3 4 Symbol Name State Condition Power USB 2.0 LAN (10/100/1000 Mbps) Disk (1­4) Off Solid Flashing Off On Off Solid Flashing Off On Flashing Not receiving power Receiving power: normal operation Booting or shutting down by power button USB device not available USB device available Not connected to network Connected to network Transmitting or receiving network data Drive not available Drive available Drive activity 5 English Back USB Ports Ethernet Port Power Connector Power Switch System Requirements · · Microsoft Windows XP; Microsoft Windows Server 2003; or Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Server, or Advanced Server with Service Pack 4 An HTML 4.01-compliant Web Browser (such as Internet Explorer 5.5 or later or Netscape 8.0 or later) with JavaScript enabled Installation Instructions If you bought your Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS with the disks already installed and configured, and you do not want to change your disk configuration, skip step one and proceed with Attaching USB Devices in step two on page 9. Step One: Determine Your Configuration Before you start the physical installation of your storage system, decide which configuration is best suited to your needs. The configuration that you choose may affect the order in which you load the disks into your storage system, and you will need to specify your configuration choice when you reach "Step Five: Configure your Storage System". Each supported configuration has a different balance of desirable characteristics, as shown in the table below. The configurations available to you depend on the number of disks installed in your storage system. Use this table to select your configuration based on the number of disks you intend to use and the characteristics that are of the highest priority to you. 6 English Configuration Characteristics Number of Disks Configuration Methods Used Available Capacity* Data Redundancy Performance 1 2 Linear Linear RAID 0 RAID 1 Independent disks Independent disks Striping Mirroring Independent disks Striping Striping with parity Independent disks Striping Striping with parity Striping with parity; spare drive automatically rebuilds a failed drive Striping, Mirroring 500 GB 1.0 TB 1.0 TB 500 GB 1.5 TB 1.5 TB 1.0 TB 2.0 TB 2.0 TB 1.5 TB 1.0 TB 1.0 TB No No No Yes No No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Good Good High Good Good High Good Good High Good Good Good 3 Linear RAID 0 RAID 5 4 Linear RAID 0 RAID 5 RAID 5 with Spare RAID 10 * Available capacity based on 500-GB drives For more information about configurations, see the User Guide on the USRobotics Installation CD-ROM. Step Two: Set up your storage system Setting up your storage system consists of the following steps: Installing the Hard Disks Attaching USB Devices Connecting the Storage System to the Network Powering Up the Storage System Installing the Hard Disks If you have fewer than four hard disks in your storage system, you might want to add more at this time. You can add disks later, but changing your disk configuration once the disks contain data might cause data loss. Note: The storage system must have at least one SATA hard disk with a capacity of at least 80 GB. USRobotics strongly recommends that you install all the hard disks that you want to use in the storage system at this time in order to avoid data loss. USRobotics also recommends that you use 4 disks of the same size for optimum performance. To install the hard disks, you need a Phillips head screwdriver. 1. Remove the top hard disk tray from the storage system: 7 English 2. Near the front of the tray is a spacer containing four screws. Squeeze the tabs together to remove the spacer from the tray. 3. With the flat edge of the spacer up and the screws facing a flat surface (such as a table or desk top), flex the sides of the spacer apart from each other to release the screws. 4. Make sure that the hard disk is a SATA disk. It should have a SATA connector similar to the following: 5. Slide the new hard disk into the tray (connector end down and toward the back of the tray), and fasten the screws on the sides of the tray: 6. Slide the hard disk and tray back into the storage system until it snaps into place. 8 English If you have fewer than four disks, load the bottom trays first and leave the top tray or trays empty. If you have four disks that are not the same size and you intend to use RAID 10, USRobotics recommends that you load the disks in ascending order of disk capacity, starting with the smallest disk in the bottom slot (slot 1), Notes: · · If you install a hard disk that was previously part of a RAID, it will rebuild automatically. If you later replace all of the disks with higher-capacity disks, you will have to format those disks. For more information about disk configurations, see the User Guide on the USRobotics Installation CD-ROM. 7. Repeat steps 1 through 6 for each disk that you will use in your storage system. Attaching USB Devices If you have USB storage devices or printers, you can attach them to the USB ports on the back of the storage system. Connecting the Storage System to the Network To connect your storage system to your network, insert one end of the supplied RJ-45 Ethernet cable into the Ethernet port on the back of the storage system. Then insert the other end into a network port. Powering Up the Storage System To power up the storage system, insert the power cable into the power connector on the back of the storage system and plug the other end into a power outlet. Note: USRobotics recommends that you plug the storage system into a surge protector or uninterruptible power supply to prevent damage to the system from power surges. Once you have connected the power cable, make sure that the power switch on the back of the storage system is set to the on position. Then press and release the power button on the front of the storage system. The power and Disk LEDs flash while the storage system is booting. Once the system has finished booting, the Disk LEDs stop flashing. If the hard disk installation was successful, the Disk LED is blue. If there is a problem, the Disk LED is off. If this occurs, shut down the system, remove and inspect the hard disk for any installation problem, and reinstall it. To shut down the system, press and hold the power button for approximately five seconds until the Disk LEDs start flashing. Then release the power button; the storage system will shut down after a short period. Step Three: Install the Storage System Console Install the Storage System Console on a computer on the same network as the Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS: 1. Insert the USRobotics Installation CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. 2. If prompted, select your preferred language, then review the License Agreement and click Yes. 9 English The installation CD prompts you to make a choice: 3. Select Console Installation. The installation wizard appears. 4. Follow the on-screen prompts to install the System Console. When installation is complete, the following window appears: 5. Click Finish. Step Four: Initialize the hard disks To initialize the hard disks, follow these steps: 1. Start the Storage System Console: click Start > Programs > Storage System Console. 10 English The Storage System Console appears: 2. In the left pane, click the name of the storage system. Then click Log On Storage System Manager. If you see the Login page, your storage system was initialized and configured before you bought it. You are finished with the installation procedure and can begin using your Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS system, or you can reconfigure your disks if you choose to do so. Skip the remaining installation steps and proceed with "Logging In to the Web User Interface" on page 17. 11 English If the System Initialization page appears, you need to initialize your disks: If not all the hard disks have been detected, or if you want to add, remove, or reorder the disks at this time, insert or remove the disks one at a time and click Scan after each action. If you're adding disks, be sure to wait until the Disk LED is blue before you click Scan. Note: USRobotics strongly recommends that you install all the hard disks that you want to use in the storage system at this time, since changing the number of hard disks later can require disk reconfiguration and possible data loss. 3. 4. 5. Click Browse and locate the USRobotics Installation CD-ROM. Double-click the file inside the Firmware folder. On the System Initialization page, click Upload. The firmware on the storage system's internal flash memory is uploaded to the hard disks. 12 English When this process is complete, the storage system restarts and displays the welcome page: Step Five: Configure your Storage System Once initial setup has been completed, follow these steps to run the System Setup wizard and perform the necessary initial configuration: 1. On the welcome page, click Next. The End User Software License Agreement page appears. 2. If you agree to the terms, select I accept the license agreement and click Next. The Host Name page appears. 3. Click Next to accept the default storage system name (USR8700) OR Enter the name that you prefer and then click Next. The storage system name can be up to 15 characters long and can include letters, numbers, and hyphens. When you click Next, the Date/Time page appears: 4. Specify the current date, time, and time zone, and then click Next. Specify the time using the 24-hour format. For example, enter 2:00 P.M. as 14:00:00. 13 English When you click Next, the Network Settings page appears: 5. By default, if your network has a DHCP server, the storage system obtains an IP address automatically from that server. If your network does not have a DHCP server, the default IP address and subnet mask are used. (The default IP address is 192.168.0.101, and the default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0). To accept the default settings, click Next. Otherwise, specify the desired settings and then click Next. The Disk Configuration page appears. The options that appear on this page vary depending on the number of hard disks that are currently installed in the system. 6. Select the configuration that you chose from the table on page 7 and click Next. 14 English By default, the storage system selects the configuration that provides the best level of data protection available: for a single disk, a linear configuration; for two disks, RAID 1; and for three or four disks, RAID 5. If you want to change the disk configuration, select the desired RAID level and then click Next. If you want to add or remove hard disks, do so one at a time. For each disk, wait until the Disk LED is blue and click Scan. When you are finished adding disks, select your configuration and click Next. When you click Next, the Disks to Back Up screen appears: 7. In the Number of disks to back up list, select the total number of disks that you plan to back up to this storage system. The maximum number of disks you can back up is 25. If you don't plan to back up any disks, select 0, click Next, and go to step 10. If you leave this field blank, 70% of your storage space will be allocated for backups, and 30% will be allocated for shared folders. If some computers have multiple disks, be sure to select the total number of disks that you plan to back up. For example, if your network has five computers and each computer has two hard disks, you should select 10. When you select a number, a corresponding number of text boxes (Disk 1, Disk 2, etc.) appear in 15 English Capacity ...