User manual ACER ASPIRE E1-531G

[. . . ] No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Acer Incorporated. Other company's product names or trademarks are used herein for identification purposes only and belong to their respective companies. Chapter Chapter 1 Introducing Your Storage System 1 Chapter 2 Getting Started 3 Initializing your storage system . 35 Chapter 3 Managing Your Storage System 36 Managing users . 76 Altos easyStore Manual 1 Chapter Expanding the shared storage. [. . . ] In the Administrator password text box, enter your password for logging in to the Manager. (The options that appear on this page vary, depending on the number of hard disks that are currently installed in the system. ) 4. 5. 6. If you want to add or remove hard disks, do so one at a time and click Scan after each action. To accept the default disk configuration (which will provide the best level of data protection available for the number of hard disks currently installed), click Next. By default, a linear disk configuration is used for a single hard disk, RAID 1 is used for two hard disks, and RAID 5 is used for three or four hard disks. If you want to change the disk configuration, select the desired RAID level and then click Next. (For detailed information about the different RAID levels, refer to Appendix B, "Disk Configurations. ") 79 Altos easyStore Manual 79 Chapter 3 Managing Your Storage System The Disk Space Distribution page displays: 7. To accept how the disk space will be proportioned for shared folders and backups (only 200 MB will be allocated for shared folders), click Finish. If you want to allocate more space for shared folders, select Allocate more space for shared folders and then specify how much space to allocate (either All available disk space or Specified disk space). If you select Specified disk space, enter the number of gigabytes to allocate for shared folders (the minimum is 1 GB). Note: You can expand the amount of disk space allocated for shared folders later (as long as free disk space is available), but you cannot reduce it without reconfiguring your disks and losing all your data. If you plan to back up computer disks to your storage system, it is recommended that you use the minimum amount of space for shared folders, back up all the computer disks that you plan to protect, and then expand the space allocated for shared folders. In the Drive list, select the drive letter that you want to assign to the shared folder. In the Folder text box, enter the following: \\storage_system\shared_folder 4. where storage_system is the name or IP address of the storage system, and shared_folder is the name of the shared folder. For example, if your storage system's IP address is 192. 168. 0. 101 and the shared folder name is Photos, you would enter the following: \\192. 168. 0. 101\Photos Note: You can use the storage system name only if your computer is in the same subnet as the storage system, if you added the storage system's IP address and name to your local hosts file, or if you manually registered the name with a DNS server in your network. Alternatively, you can click Browse and select the shared folder from the Microsoft Windows Network. 86 Altos easyStore Manual 86 Chapter 4 Working with Shared Folders 5. To automatically connect to this shared folder each time you log on to Windows, select Reconnect at logon. If you clear this option, you must repeat this procedure each time you want to access the shared folder. 6. If prompted, enter your user name and password for accessing this shared folder, and then click OK. Note: If the user name and password for accessing the shared folder are the same as your Windows user name and password, you are not prompted to provide a user name and password to access the shared folder. In addition, once you provide your user name and password for accessing one shared folder, you are not prompted to provide it again when you access other shared folders to which you have access rights. If the storage system uses local authentication mode and the guest user has access to this shared folder, you can use guest as both the user name and password. You can now access the shared folder from My Computer/Windows Explorer. Using the Console To access a shared folder using the Console: 1. Install the Console (as described in "Installing the Console"). [. . . ] As long as you re-install the original disks, the storage system should be able to resume proper operation, although the integrity of the data cannot be guaranteed. However, if you replace the removed disks with new disks, you must reconfigure your disks (as described in "Reconfiguring your storage system disks"). Responding to RAID degradation When disk removal/failure causes RAID degradation, the Disk Change Notification page displays when you access the Manager or refresh the browser window: Reconfiguring your disks will delete all the data on your storage 152 Altos easyStore Manual Appendix B Disk Configurations Take the appropriate action: To do this Scan the storage system again and update the information on the page Re-install the same disk or install a new disk Do this Click Scan. Click Shut Down. After the storage system shuts down, install the disk and then restart the system. [. . . ]