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Altos easyStore Quick Installation Guide

1.1 Packing content:

One Altos easyStore with pre-installed Hard Disk Drives

One Power cord

One Software Installation CD

One DiskSafe Express Recovery CD

One RJ-45 Networking cable

1.2 Default Setting

Name Default Setting

User name admin

Password storage

IP Address 192.168.0.101

Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0

DHCP Client Yes

1.3 Hardware Installation

In order to connect Altos easyStore, perform the following steps:

1. Carefully remove the Altos easyStore unit the package.

2. Connect an Ethernet cable from your computer directly to the back of the Altos easyStore in Figure

1-2.

3. Connect your host computer and Altos easyStore by RJ45 Networking cable in Figure 1-2.

4. Power on the Altos easyStore in Figure 1-1.

Figure 1-1: Front Panel

Figure 1-2: Rear Panel

Altos easyStore Quick Installation Guide

Summary of content (7 pages)

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Altos easyStore Quick Installation Guide 1.1 Packing content: One Altos easyStore with pre-installed Hard Disk Drives One Power cord One Software Installation CD One DiskSafe Express Recovery CD One RJ-45 Networking cable 1.2 Default Setting Name User name Password IP Address Subnet Mask DHCP Client Default Setting admin storage 192.168.0.101 255.255.255.0 Yes 1.3 Hardware Installation In order to connect Altos easyStore, perform the following steps: 1.
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1.3 System Set-up 1. Insert the Installation CD into your CD-ROM drive. If the auto run application shown in Figure 1-3 opens when the CD is inserted, choose the options you want Figure 1-3: Auto Run Application 2. To access the device, your computer will need to be configured to be on the same subnet as the unit. The unit’s default IP address is 192.168.0.101 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. 3. Open your web browser and type “http://192.168.0.101” in the address bar and press “ENTER”. 4.
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5. Click “IE Browser” button and select latest firmware named “xxx.PKG” from the Software CD. Then click “Open” and click “Upload” for uploading system firmware. Figure 1-5: System firmware Figure 1-6: System firmware upload 6. System will start initialization. When system initialization is complete, please turn off browser manually and wait for one minute. Figure 1-7: System firmware upload Figure 1-8: System firmware upload complete 7. Open your web browser and type “http://192.168.0.
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8. The “License Agreement Page” appears, check “I accept the license agreement.” Then click “Next”. Figure 1-10: End User Software License Agreement Page 9. The Host Name page appears. Click “Next” to accept the default name (NetworkStorage), or enter a desired name for Altos easyStore. The Host name can be up to 15 characters long and can include letters, numbers and hyphens.
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10. At the next step, configure your local “Date/Time”. When you are done with the setting, click “Next” Figure 1-12: Setup Date/Time Page 11. Setup “Network Setting”. Choose “Get an IP address automatically” (If you have DHCP server) or use the default IP 192.168.0.101.
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12. Setup “Disk Configuration”. If you inserted more than one hard drive, you can select RAID 0 or RAID 1. If you install over 3 HDDs, RAID 5 is enabled. When you are done with the setting, click “Next” Figure 1-14: Setup Disk Configuration 13. The storage will be divided into 2 portions: shared folders (default is 200MB) and backups, select the desired volume for each one.
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14. System will take a couple of minutes for RAID initialization depending on the HDD capacity and type of RAID you chose. Figure 1-16: System configuration started 15. After system configuration is complete, close browser manually and wait for several minutes. 16. Open your web browser and type “http://192.168.0.101” in the address bar and press “ENTER”. Default setting of username and password is “admin” and “storage” Figure 1-17: Logging into Altos easyStore Storage System 17.