Us robotics USR8700 Quick Installation Guide
Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS
Quick Installation Guide
Guide d'installation rapide
R24.0605.00
rev 0.1 05/06
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Installation.................................................................................................................................................5
Support.................................................................................................................................................... 18
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Installation............................................................................................................................................... 19
Assistance................................................................................................................................................32
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Installation
Package Contents
• USR8700 Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS • Installation CD-ROM
•Power Cord •Quick Installation Guide
• Ethernet Cable • DiskSafe Express recovery CD
Physical Features
Front
The Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS system has the following status LEDs:
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Symbol Name State Condition
Power Off Not receiving power
Solid Receiving power: normal operation
Flashing Booting or shutting down by power button
USB 2.0 Off USB device not available
On USB device available
LAN
(10/100/1000 Mbps)
Off Not connected to network
Solid Connected to network
Flashing Transmitting or receiving network data
Disk
(1–4)
Off Drive not available
On Drive available
Flashing Drive activity
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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.
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Configuration Characteristics
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Number
of Disks
Configuration
Methods Used
Available
Capacity*
Data
Redundancy Performance
1 Linear Independent disks 500 GB No Good
2
Linear Independent disks 1.0 TB No Good
RAID 0 Striping 1.0 TB No High
RAID 1 Mirroring 500 GB Yes Good
3
Linear Independent disks 1.5 TB No Good
RAID 0 Striping 1.5 TB No High
RAID 5 Striping with parity 1.0 TB Yes Good
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Linear Independent disks 2.0 TB No Good
RAID 0 Striping 2.0 TB No High
RAID 5 Striping with parity 1.5 TB Yes Good
RAID 5
with Spare
Striping with parity; spare drive automatically rebuilds a failed drive
1.0 TB Yes Good
RAID 10 Striping, Mirroring 1.0 TB Yes Good
* 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:
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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.
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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 recom-
mends 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 uninterrupt-
ible 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.
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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.
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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.
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