First time setting up a NAS - 10 TB MicroNet Platinum raid sata pr10000sata

[Eric1180]

Total newbie to NAS, been wanting to build for a while now.

The other day I found this gem with 10TB storage never used and bought it for $150

http://www.amazon.com/Micronet-Platinum-Desktop-Storage-PR10000SATA/dp/B002HHMBJM

Besides setting up the raid (raid 5), communicating with it over the network and pinging the address, I have no idea how to access my storage. I have been using the Web browser configuration panel to connect to it and set it up. But no luck getting it to show up in my network as a storage device...

I've been trying my best to figure it out but there is little documented support and I have no experience with network storage,

Here is one of the user manuals. My unit only has a ESATA, ethernet and rs232 port on the back
http://www.micronet.com/support/manuals/PlatinumRAIDPro_R3_0508.pdf



Windows 8.1 Pro
i7-4790k
z97 AsRock Mini-itx

 

[popatim]

You'll have to manually map a drive letter to the device by its ip address alternately you can also brwose to it http://IPaddressort# , ftp or telnet into it.

 

[Eric1180]

i've accessed the drive by using http://192.168.1.115/ but when i try to map the drive throught the same address it doesnt work
<a href="http://imgur.com/sDXRKLS"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/sDXRKLS.jpg" title="source: imgur.com" /></a>

 

[popatim]

its ipaddress colon port# (no spaces) when you map the drive and make sure the port# is open in your routers config.

 

[Eric1180]

I tried
http://192.168.1.115:80
192.168.1.115:80
192.168.1.115:80#
\\192.168.1.115:80

 

[popatim]

did you open port 80 on the router?

 

[Eric1180]

im not familiar with what that means

 

[popatim]

enter your routers administration webpage, find port forwarding, usually under Advanced Settings, and forward the port number you setup on the device for both (tcp & Udp) protocols. In your example you list the port as 80 so start and end range would be 80. (most routers don't force you to enter an ip address and opens the port for everyone.)