User manual BUFFALO TS-RHTGL-R5 TERASTATION PRO II

[. . . ] User Manual TeraStation Pro II TS-HTGL/R5 www. buffalotech. com v1. 0 Introduction Congratulations on your new TeraStation!Because we're constantly updating our product, the images and text in this manual may vary slightly from the images and text displayed by your TeraStation. These changes are minor and should not affect the ease of setup adversely. As time passes, future user interfaces, updated software, and later versions of this manual may be freely available for download at our web site: http://www. buffalotech. com. [. . . ] You may delete old arrays or create new ones by clicking on the underlined RAID Array # under RAID Array Configuration. The RAID Scanning Settings set a specific time for the TeraStation to scan and inspect its RAID arrays. It is recommended to set a time where the TeraStations usage will be minimal (perhaps the middle of the night). Begin Immediate RAID Scan specifies the TeraStation to run a RAID Scan immediately. You may also disable RAID Array Error Detection Response from this page. Normally, this is set to automatically shut down the RAID array when an error is detected. Though it is not recommended, you may disable that behavior by selecting Disable. Before creating a new RAID array, you may have to delete one or more pre-existing RAID Arrays to clear up the hard drives for your new one. This will destroy all data currently on the disks, so back up any important data before deleting RAID arrays. Whether you want to clear out an old array or create a new one, begin by clicking on the array's underlined RAID Array #, under Name. 1 Advanced Settings Disk Management (RAID Configuration) A configured RAID array may be deleted by pushing the Delete RAID Array button. This will free up all hard drives listed under Disk Structure. You will need to enter a confirmation number from the screen before the RAID array will be deleted. Advanced Settings To configure an unconfigured array, begin by double clicking on the array you want to configure, e. g. "RAID Array 1". Choose your RAID mode under RAID Settings and put checks next to the hard disks you want included in the array under Disk Structure. When it's finished, a Disk Check will run. Advanced Settings Disk Management (Disk Check) When RAID Configuration is done, a disk check will run automatically. Performance of the TeraStation will be slower than normal while the disk check is running. Advanced Settings Disk Management (RAID Configuration) You'll see this screen when your new RAID Array is completely configured. Click on Shared Folders and turn to page 41 to begin setting up shares on your TeraStation. Advanced Settings Disk Management (USB Settings) If you've plugged an external USB hard drive into one of the USB ports on your TeraStation, you may set it up from this page. Click on its name under USB Disk Setup to begin. Advanced Settings Disk Management (USB hard drive setup) From here you can see your USB hard drive's setup information. If the hard drive's information isn't displayed properly, try restarting your USB hard drive and then restarting your TeraStation. Some USB hard drives must be reformatted from within TeraStation before they can be assigned shares. Press Format USB Disk, or choose Disk Format from the left-side menu, to begin reformatting your USB hard disk. Turn to page 40 to set up shares on your USB hard drives. Advanced Settings Disk Management (Disk Check) To initiate a comprehensive disk check on a hard drive or array of drives, select the hard drive or array that you want to check from the Target dropbox and click the Start Disk Check button. Performance will be slower while the disk check is running. Advanced Settings Disk Management (Disk Format) To format a hard drive or array, select it from the Target Disk drop box. Choose the file system desired from the File System dropbox (internal drives can only be formatted with XFS). [. . . ] Clicking the Setup pulldown menu and selecting Browser Management takes you to the configuration GUI. And clicking Setup and choosing Modify IP Address takes you to the following screen . . TeraStation Client Utility IP Address Setup Here, you may enter your IP Address and Subnet Mask manually, or enable your TeraStation to acquire them automatically from a DHCP server. Press OK when you're done. Troubleshooting If TeraStation encounters a disk error, it will be reported in the TeraStation status on the top of any of the Web-Based configuration screens. [. . . ]