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...

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...


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
http://imgur.com/sDXRKLS

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

 

[kanewolf]

Look at page 19 of the manual http://www.micronet.com/support/manuals/PlatinumNAS%20manual%20rev%202.1.pdf
You need to create some shared folders.

You probably need to read page 27 about setting up accounts and setting the windows workgroup.

 

[tomatthe]

$150 for 10TB of nas storage sounds extremely cheap, and the link you posted to amazon isn't working so can't quite tell what you got. The link to the manual also isn't working, but the manual which I think is the model you have shows the Ethernet port as only used for management and not accessing the device. It looks more like this needs to be direct attached to your machine vs accessed via cifs/nfs. The Platinum Raid Pro manual has instructions on connection and creating a Raid set etc which it sounds like you have already done, but you will need to connect the device to your PC via eSata/usb/firewire


If you do have the model that kanewolf linked, disregard my post as I was looking at the wrong model. I was looking at this one,

http://www.micronet.com/support/manuals/PlatinumRAIDPro_R3_0508.pdf

 

[Eric1180]

http://www.micronet.com/support/manuals/PlatinumRAIDPro_R3_0508.pdf here is the manual i meant to link.
and the amazon page http://www.amazon.com/Micronet-Platinum-Desktop-Storage-PR10000SATA/dp/B002HHMBJM

I dont have the Folder page like in the linked manual. The only connection my device has is ethernet, Esata and rs232

 

[Eric1180]

$150 for 10TB of nas storage sounds extremely cheap, and the link you posted to amazon isn't working so can't quite tell what you got. The link to the manual also isn't working, but the manual which I think is the model you have shows the Ethernet port as only used for management and not accessing the device. It looks more like this needs to be direct attached to your machine vs accessed via cifs/nfs. The Platinum Raid Pro manual has instructions on connection and creating a Raid set etc which it sounds like you have already done, but you will need to connect the device to your PC via eSata/usb/firewire


If you do have the model that kanewolf linked, disregard my post as I was looking at the wrong model. I was looking at this one,

http://www.micronet.com/support/manuals/PlatinumRAIDPro_R3_0508.pdf

my model only has Esata, do i simply plug this into my mobo's sata port?

 

[tomatthe]

In a quick look it doesn't seem your board actually has an eSATA port which is a bit odd but i guess that's mini-itx for you. I would suggest adding an expansion card for eSATA so you didn't have a rigged up solution with cables running inside your machine and likely wouldn't be hot swap. I'm not sure what usage case you were going for in buying this, but maybe explaining what you wanted to do would make it a bit easier to advise. There may be specific cards that device recommends for using with it which they should have listed in the manual or website. I can't say I've ever actually worked with eSATA so don't have much to offer for suggestions on an expansion card but likely any would do if you don't want to bother hunting for mfg suggestions.