1. Unpack the NS370TB3 The box contains the following items: 。Netstor NS370TB3 storage 。HDD tray × 4 (installed in enclosure) 。Thunderbolt 3 cable (2 meters) × 1 。Power cord × 1 。HDD mounting screws 。Key for HDD tray × 2 2.
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10. Thumbscrews to loosen / tighten the top cover 7. Hot-Swappable Blower Fan 1 。75 × 75 × 28 mm 6. Power Cord Receptacle 8. Hot-Swappable Blower Fan 2 。75 × 75 × 28 mm 9. Thunderbolt 3 Connectors 。Connecting Thunderbolt 3 cables to host and downstream device Go Top ↑...
2.2 Environmental Control Board LED Status D2 LED: fan failure indicator 。D2 LED no light: both blower fan 1 and 2 are normal 。D2 LED red light: either blower fan 1 or 2 fails D4 LED: fan 1 status 。D4 LED no light: blower fan 1 is normal 。D4 LED red light: blower fan 1 fails D5 LED: fan 2 status 。D5 LED no light: blower fan 2 is normal...
3. Setup Procedure 3.1 Storage Setup 1. Place NS370TB3 storage on a level surface on a stable table. 2. Take out all the four HDD trays. Go Top ↑...
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3. Place HDDs in the trays and fix them with the included hard drive mounting screws. And then put the trays with HDDs back to NS370TB3 storage. 4. Connect NS370TB3 and Thunderbolt 3 computer with Thunderbolt cable, and then connect Netstor storage with power source.
3.2 Blower Fan Speed Adjustment 1. There are two hot-swappable 75×75×28 mm blower fans for ventilation at rear of NS370TB3. After loosening the two thumbscrews on the fan module, the blower fan can be pulled out of the storage enclosure.
4. Power On/Off NS370TB3 1. NS370TB3 storage is designed to be powered on/off simultaneously with the Thunderbolt 3 computer as NS370TB3 is connected to computer by Thunderbolt cable. Therefore, power on computer first, and then NS370TB3 will be powered on automatically.
NS370TB3 appears in the information, it means Netstor storage is recognized correctly by computer. 2. Verify RAID controller of NS370TB3. Right after the above point 1, click PCI in the left column, and information about NS370TB3 RAID controller will appear. (For RAID controller, from starting up, it will take more time for its info to be shown) Go Top ↑...
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3. Verify the driver of NS370TB3 RAID controller. Following point 2, there is an item Driver Installed indicating the status of RAID controller’s driver. The driver is already embedded in macOS 10.12 and later. 4. Download MRAID GUI program to configure and set up RAID volume for NS370TB3.
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7. Input admin for name and 0000 for password to enter. 8. After logging in, for quick setup of RAID volume, click Quick Function in the left column, and select Quick Create. After RAID volume is created, a pane will pop up providing three selections for action.
5.2 Windows Operating System 1. Verify Netstor NS370TB3 is recognized by computer. Right click This PC, and select Manage. As window of Computer Management pops up, click Device Manager in the left column, click View at the top menu bar, and select Devices by connection.
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4. After installing the driver and the GUI program, launch the GUI program by selecting ArcHttpSrvGUI in All Programs in Windows Start to run the application. 5. Subsequent to running ArcHttpSrvGUI application, the web-based GUI will appear. Select SAS RAID Controllers, and then select Web Management to enter the web GUI 6.
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7. After logging in, for quick setup of RAID volume, click Quick Function in the left column, and select Quick Create. 8. After creating RAID volume, right click This PC, and select Manage. As window of Computer Management pops up, click Disk Management in the left column, and a window will pop up;...
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It is strongly recommended when under RAID initializing or rebuilding, the sleep mode be disabled temporarily for speeding up the process. While computer goes in sleep mode, the NS370TB3 will go into sleep as well for energy saving; when computer wakes up, the initializing or rebuilding will resume automatically.
LEDs lighting status will be before NS370TB3 is powered on and after the Netstor unit is powered on. Power-off: Before NS370TB3 is powered on, only LED 2 will show green light, and the rest LED 3 through LED 6 will not show light. green light not show light Go Top ↑...
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Power-on: After NS370TB3 is powered on, LED 2 through LED 5 will show green light. At this time, if a USB device or a monitor is daisy chained to the second Thunderbolt 3 port on the Netstor Thunderbolt 3 card, then LED 6 will show green light. On the other hand, provided the second Thunderbolt 3 port is not connected with any device/monitor, LED 6 will not show light.
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