Thecus Technology N8800 Tips and Tricks, USB and eSATA Storage Expansion, Adding a Spare Disk

Chapter 7: Tips and Tricks

USB and eSATA Storage Expansion

The N8800 supports external USB hard disks through its four USB ports. Once a USB hard disk has successfully mounted, the entire volume will be copied automatically to the default USB HDD folder. The N8800 supports up to 6 USB external storage devices. All file names on the USB disk volume are case sensitive.

The N8800 also supports eSATA hard disks with its eSATA port.

Before attaching an eSATA or USB disk drive to N8800, you have to partition and format it on a desktop computer or a notebook first. The attached device will be

located at \\192.168.1.100\usbhdd\sdf1 where 192.168.1.100 means the IP address of N8800 and sdf1 stands for the first partition on disk #6, the eSATA or USB disk drive. If it is an NTFS partition, NAS users can open or copy files from \\192.168.1.100\usbhdd\sdf1 but cannot add new files or modify existing files.

NOTE

If you want to write to an USB storage device, the file system must be FAT32.

USB Storage	FAT32 Partition	NTFS Partition
Read	OK	OK
Write	OK	-

Adding a Spare Disk

With a RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10 volume, you can add a spare disk after the initial RAID is setup. To add a spare disk, follow the steps below:

1.On the RAID Configuration Screen, tick the checkbox of the hard disk you wish to designate as a spare disk.

2.Click Add Spare. The disk will be configured as a spare disk. The system automatically rebuilds the spare disk when one of the disks in the RAID set fails.

Remote Administration

You can set up your N8800 for remote administration. With remote administration, you can access your N8800 over the Internet, even if your N8800 is behind a router. This is especially useful if you are traveling and suddenly need a file from your N8800.

Setting up remote administration is a three-part process, and will require the following equipment:

•Thecus N8800 NAS device

•Cable/DSL Router with Dynamic DNS support

•Home PC

•Internet Connection

NOTE	Router setup will differ slightly depending on router used. For this
	example, we will use the Asus WL500g because it has support for
	Dynamic DNS. Contact your router hardware vendor for setup help.
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