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Part of the Furniture
Over time... a lot of cruft can build up...
1) Backup User Data to another machine - this is pretty important - as the next steps will wipe out the NAS
(if you don't have QFinder - download it now for Mac/Windows - if your primary platform is linux, find a Mac/Win box to sort this)
Once that is done
2) Once all user data is backed up - shutdown the NAS
3) Pull the drives - this will force the next step
4) With the drives pulled - start the NAS up
5) Fire up QFinder once the NAS is up - might take a few minutes
6) Once QFinder sees the NAS - the DiskOnChip has enough OS to grab a DHCP address on the local subnet
7) Login to the NAS from QFinder - all drives should be pulled at the moment...
8) Start inserting drives - if you have a QNAP with an LCD, you should see HDD1 installed, and then insert the second disk, etc...
9) Follow the prompts in your web browser for admin account, initial setup, you'll be prompted for disks, and you can do this now (not recommended) or do it later (recommended)
10) QTS will then configure the NAS and wipe all the installed drives
11) When complete - login as admin into the NAS, and you'll be prompted with a few things perhaps (Welcome to QTS 4.2, blah), but the important thing is to make some decisions about how to build the disks/array/volumes...
Done - go back and customize settings as needed - add user accounts, let the RAID (if used) Sync Up, and you're back in business...
1) Backup User Data to another machine - this is pretty important - as the next steps will wipe out the NAS
(if you don't have QFinder - download it now for Mac/Windows - if your primary platform is linux, find a Mac/Win box to sort this)
Once that is done
2) Once all user data is backed up - shutdown the NAS
3) Pull the drives - this will force the next step
4) With the drives pulled - start the NAS up
5) Fire up QFinder once the NAS is up - might take a few minutes
6) Once QFinder sees the NAS - the DiskOnChip has enough OS to grab a DHCP address on the local subnet
7) Login to the NAS from QFinder - all drives should be pulled at the moment...
8) Start inserting drives - if you have a QNAP with an LCD, you should see HDD1 installed, and then insert the second disk, etc...
9) Follow the prompts in your web browser for admin account, initial setup, you'll be prompted for disks, and you can do this now (not recommended) or do it later (recommended)
10) QTS will then configure the NAS and wipe all the installed drives
11) When complete - login as admin into the NAS, and you'll be prompted with a few things perhaps (Welcome to QTS 4.2, blah), but the important thing is to make some decisions about how to build the disks/array/volumes...
Done - go back and customize settings as needed - add user accounts, let the RAID (if used) Sync Up, and you're back in business...
