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1. Unpack the NA762TB3
2. Storage Enclosure Description
Panel Layout
The box contains the following items:
Netstor NA762TB3 storage
HDD tray × 8 (installed in enclosure)
Thunderbolt 3 cable (2 meters) × 1
Power cord × 1
HDD mounting screws
Key for HDD tray × 2
1. HDD Power LED
White - Power On Indicator
4. Fan LED
Green – normal
Red – fan failure ( low frequency of RPM or stop)
5. Temperature LED
Green – normal
Red – over temperature
6. Mute Button
Mute Buzzer Beeping
3. Power On LED
White – Storage Power On
2. HDD Status LED
Flash Blue - HDD Accessing Indicator
Red - HDD Failure Indicator
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3.2 Fan Speed Adjustment
1. There are two hot-swappable 80×80×25 mm cooling fans for ventilation at rear
of NA762TB3. After loosening the two thumbscrews on fan module, the fan
module can be detached from storage.
2. The rear 80×80×25 mm cooling fans speed can be adjusted. As fan module is
detached from storage, there are four sets of jumpers labeled with 6V, 8V,
10V, 12V from left to right on the backplane inside NA762TB3. The default
setting is the jumper being placed over pin 7 and 8 for label 6V for slowest
speed. The speed increases from label 8V to label 12V. As jumper is not placed
over pins, the fan will spin at 12V full speed.
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6V
8V
10V
12V
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4. Power On/Off NA762TB3
1. NA762TB3 storage is designed to be powered on/off simultaneously with the
Thunderbolt 3 computer as NA762TB3 is connected to computer by Thunderbolt
cable. Therefore, power on computer first, and then NA762TB3 will be powered
on automatically.
2. As NA762TB3 storage is connected to computer by Thunderbolt cable, when
shutting down computer, the NA762TB3 will be shut down automatically as well.
If there is a PSU power switch on Netstor storage, remember to switch it
to “I” position to enable the PSU first.
NA762TB3 supports hot-plug and hot-unplug for powering on and off.
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5. Verification
1. Verify Netstor NA762TB3 is recognized by computer. Click Apple icon at the top
menu bar, select About This Mac, and click System Report button. Click Thunderbolt
in the left column, as NA762TB3 appears in the information, it means Netstor
storage is recognized correctly by computer.
2. Verify RAID controller of NA762TB3. Right after the above point 1, click PCI in the left
column, and information about NA762TB3 RAID controller will appear. (For RAID
controller, from starting up, it will take more time for its info to be shown)
5.1 macOS
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3. Verify the driver of NA762TB3 RAID controller. Following point 2, there is an item
Driver Installed indicating the status of RAID controller’s driver. The driver is
already embedded in macOS 10.12 and later.
4. Download MRAID GUI program to configure and set up RAID volume for NA762TB3.
To download MRAID GUI program, please visit: www.netstor.com.tw
5. After downloading and installing MRAID GUI program, open MRAID folder, and
double click ArcHTTP64 icon to enter configuration page on web browser.
6. When at first page of web GUI, click SAS RAID Controllers, select Web Management,
and then a login pane will pop up.
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7. Input admin for name and 0000 for password to enter.
8. After logging in, for quick setup of RAID volume, click Quick Function in the
left column, and select Quick Create. After RAID volume is created, a pane
will pop up providing three selections for action. Click Initialize button to
format the RAID volume.
9. Select the RAID volume, click Erase button at top side. Name the RAID volume in
center part, and click Erase button at bottom right to format the RAID volume.
After formatting, the RAID volume is ready for use.
NOTE
To eject the RAID volume on macOS,
click Go at the top menu bar, and
select Computer. Right click the RAID
volume, and select Eject to safely eject
the RAID volume from computer.
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5.2 Windows Operating System
1. Verify Netstor NA762TB3 is recognized by computer. Right click This PC, and select
Manage. As window of Computer Management pops up, click Device Manager in
the left column, click View at the top menu bar, and select Devices by connection.
2. Click ACPI x64-based PC, select Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System, and click PCI Express
Root Complex. Open the PCI Express Root Port, and NA762TB3’s RAID controller will be
shown, meaning Netstor storage is recognized correctly by computer.
3. Install Windows MRAID that contains Windows driver of NA762TB3 RAID controller
and Windows GUI program. To download Windows MRAID, please visit:
www.netstor.com.tw
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4. After installing the driver and the GUI program, launch the GUI program by
selecting ArcHttpSrvGUI in All Programs in Windows Start to run the application.
5. Subsequent to running ArcHttpSrvGUI application, the web-based GUI will
appear. Select SAS RAID Controllers, and then select Web Management to
enter the web GUI.
6. Key in admin for name and 0000 for password to enter.
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7. After logging in, for quick setup of RAID volume, click Quick Function in
the left column, and select Quick Create.
8. After creating RAID volume, right click This PC, and select Manage. As window
of Computer Management pops up, click Disk Management in the left column,
and a window will pop up; select GPT (GUID Partition Table), and click OK.
9. Following selecting GPT (GUID Partition Table), the RAID volume will appear in
the center field of the window. Right click the section of the RAID volume, and
select New Simple Volume to format the RAID volume.
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10. As formatting is completed, the RAID volume will be shown in This PC,
and it is ready for use.
It is strongly recommended when under RAID initializing or rebuilding,
the sleep mode be disabled temporarily for speeding up the process.
While computer goes in sleep mode, the NS370TB3 will go into sleep
as well for energy saving; when computer wakes up, the initializing or
rebuilding will resume automatically. Hence, the process can be
completed in a short time without sleep mode interruption.
NOTE
To eject the RAID volume on Windows, click the Safely Remove
Hardware icon at the bottom right of the screen, and select
Eject SCSI Disk Device.
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6. Thunderbolt 3 Board LEDs Status
On the Thunderbolt 3 board within the NA762TB3 storage, there are totally
five LEDs. From top to bottom, they are: LED 2 (for 3V3), LED 3 (for 5V0_ATX),
LED 4 (for 3V3_LC), LED 5 (for 0V9_SVR), and LED 6 (for 0V9_USB). The following
information describes what the LEDs lighting status will be before NA762TB3
is powered on and after the Netstor unit is powered on.
Power-off:
Before NA762TB3 is powered on, only LED 2 will show green light, and the
rest LED 3 through LED 6 will not show light.
green light
not show light
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If you have any questions, please contact your regional distributor,
or Netstor Technology, Taiwan.
Netstor Technology Co. Ltd.
www.netstor.com.tw
6F, No. 1, Alley 16, Lane 235, Baoqiao Rd., Xindian District,
New Taipei City 231-45, Taiwan, R.O.C.
sales@netstor.com.tw
+886 2 2917 1500
Power-on:
After NA762TB3 is powered on, LED 2 through LED 5 will show green light. At
this time, if a USB device or a monitor is daisy chained to the second Thunderbolt 3
port on the Netstor Thunderbolt 3 card, then LED 6 will show green light. On the
other hand, provided the second Thunderbolt 3 port is not connected with any
device/monitor, LED 6 will not show light.
green light
(green light)
connected / not connected with any device
(not show light)
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