US Robotics USR8700 User manual

Quick Installation Guide
Guide d'installation rapide
Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS
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
Physical Features
Front
The Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS system has the following status LEDs:
• USR8700 Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS • Installation CD-ROM
•PowerCord •QuickInstallationGuide
• Ethernet Cable • DiskSafe Express recovery CD
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
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 sys-
tem. 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.
Ethernet Port
USB Ports
Power Connector
Power Switch

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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.
To install the hard disks, you need a Phillips head screwdriver.
1. Remove the top hard disk tray from the storage system:
Number
of Disks Configuration Methods Used
Configuration Characteristics
Available
Capacity*
Data
Redundancy Performance
1Linear Independent disks 500 GB No Good
2Linear Independent disks 1.0 TB No Good
RAID 0 Striping 1.0 TB No High
RAID 1 Mirroring 500 GB Yes Good
3Linear 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
4Linear 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 auto-
matically 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
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.

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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 fas-
ten 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),
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 stor-
age 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 stor-
age system and plug the other end into a power outlet.
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 sys-
tem.
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.
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.
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.

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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 fol-
lowing 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 reconfig-
ure your disks if you choose to do so. Skip the remaining installation steps and proceed with “Log-
ging In to the Web User Interface” on page 17.

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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.
3. Click Browse and locate the USRobotics Installation CD-ROM.
4. Double-click the file inside the Firmware folder.
5. On the System Initialization page, click Upload.
The firmware on the storage system’s internal flash memory is uploaded to the hard disks.
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
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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.

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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.
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By default, the storage system selects the configuration that provides the best level of data protec-
tion 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
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Capacity of drives:
8. In each text box, enter the size of each disk that you plan to back up (specify the size in gigabytes).
To determine the size of a computer’s disk, open My Computer or Windows Explorer on that compu-
ter, right-click the disk, and then click Properties. Be sure to enter the entire capacity of each disk, not
just the amount of used disk space.
If a disk is smaller than 1 GB, divide the number of megabytes by 1024. For example, a 512-MB disk
would be .5 GB (512 divided by 1024 is .5).
When you click Next, the Disk Space Distribution page appears:
Note: Only 99% of the available storage space can be allocated for backups. If the amount of disk
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9. To accept the suggested percentages for file sharing and backup, click Finish.
To change these proportions, enter a new percentage in either text box. (When you click anywhere on
the page, the other text box updates automatically so that both percentages add up to 100%.) Then
click Finish.
Backup of computer disks is provided through a separate backup and recovery utility. You can install
DiskSafe Express from the USRobotics Installation CD-ROM for this purpose. For more information
about DiskSafe Express, see the
User Guide on the USRobotics Installation CD-ROM.
10. in the confirmation window, click OK.
The Configuration page appears and the system is configured according to the settings you specified.
Once the configuration is complete, the system restarts
Congratulations. You have successfully completed the installation procedure. Please register your
Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS at www.usr.com/productreg/. For regulatory and warranty information, see the
User Guide on the USRobotics Installation CD-ROM.
Logging In to the Web User Interface
When you complete the installation of your Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS system, the login page is displayed
automatically. You can now access the Web User Interface to add users, and create shared folders.
Caution:If you reduce the recommended amount of space to use for backups, you might not be
able to back up as many disks or use the maximum allowed number of backup versions.
The recommended amount of space is greater than the total size of all your disks to
accommodate multiple backup versions.
If you change these proportions after you finish the wizard, you will lose all data in your
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For subsequent access to the Web User Interface, start the Storage System Console, select the storage
system from the left pane, and click Log On Storage System Manager.
Log into the as follows:
1. Enter the default user name: admin
2. Enter the default password: storage
3. Click Log In.
For detailed information about using the Web User Interface, see the
User Guide on the USRobotics Instal-
lation CD-ROM.
Support
To obtain additional support for your Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS:
1. Know your model and serial number.
Your model number is 8700. You can find your serial number on the side of the package and on the
back of the storage device.
2. Go to the Support section of the USRobotics Web site at
www.usr.com/support/.
Many of the most common difficulties that users experience have been addressed in the FAQ and
Troubleshooting Web pages for your Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS.
The Support Web pages also contain information on the latest firmware and documentation updates.
3. Submit your technical support question using an online form, or contact the USRobotics Technical
Support Department.
Model Number Serial Number
8700
Country Webmail Voice
United States www.usr.com/emailsupport [phone]
Canada www.usr.com/emailsupport [phone]

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Installation
Contenu de la boîte
Caractéristiques matérielles
Face avant
Le système Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS comporte les voyants de statut suivants :
• USR8700 Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS • CD-ROM d'installation
• Cordon d'alimentation • Guide d'installation rapide
• Câble Ethernet • CD-ROM de récupération
DiskSafe Express
Symbole Nom Etat Condition
Alimentation Eteint Hors tension
Continu Sous tension : fonctionnement normal
Clignotant Démarrage ou arrêt avec le bouton
d'alimentation
USB 2.0 Eteint Périphérique USB non disponible
Allumé Périphérique USB disponible
LAN (10/100/
1000 Mbits/s)
Eteint Pas de connexion au réseau
Continu Connexion au réseau
Clignotant Transmission ou réception de données
Disque (1 à 4) Eteint Lecteur non disponible
Allumé Lecteur disponible
Clignotant Lecteur en activité
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Face arrière
Configuration requise
• Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 ou Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional,
Server ou Advanced Server with Service Pack 4
• Un navigateur Web compatible HTML 4.01 (tel qu'Internet Explorer 5.5 ou version ultérieure ou
Netscape 8.0 ou version ultérieure) avec activation Javascript
Instructions d'installation
Si vous avez acheté votre système Serial ATA 4-Drive NAS avec les disques déjà installés et configurés et
si vous ne souhaitez pas modifier la configuration de votre lecteur, passez directement à la section
Connexion de périphériques USB de l'étape 2, à la page 23.
Etape 1 : choix de votre configuration
Avant de procéder à l'installation physique de votre système de stockage, choisissez la configuration la
mieux adaptée à vos besoins. La configuration que vous choisissez peut avoir un impact sur l'ordre dans
lequel vous chargez les disques dans votre système de stockage. Vous devrez également indiquer le type
de configuration que vous souhaitez dans « Etape cinq : configuration de votre Système de stockage ».
Chaque configuration prise en charge présente un ensemble de caractéristiques différentes adaptées en
fonction des besoins particuliers, tel qu'indiqué dans le tableau ci-après. Les configurations disponibles
dépendent du nombre de disques installés sur votre système de stockage. Reportez-vous à ce tableau
pour choisir votre configuration en fonction du nombre de disques à utiliser et des caractéristiques qui
sont pour vous les plus importantes.
Port Ethernet
Ports USB
Prise d'alimentation
Interrupteur