Getting Started - Dns - 323 network storage

the special addition DNS-323 two bay network storage enclosure by D-Link with a pre-installed one terabyte of storage ready to use out of the box on top of the box is a diagram on adding a second hard drive but we'll cover this and using a raid configuration in another video on the back is a networking overview on the side is a list of package contents and system requirements be sure your system meets the minimum requirements to use the DNS-323 Alright, let's open the box please read: if you do not plan to install an additional hard drive skip steps one through four of the hardware installation section of the quick installation guide and start the step five pull the DNS-323 out of its packaging on the front you can see the power button on the back we have the usb port ethernet port, power two hard drive eject levers and a cooling fan also included is the CD-rom manual, quick install guide and warranty information for your convenience included is a cable clip there's an ethernet cable power adapter and below the last packaging crate is the second part of the power adapter okay let's connect the DNS-323 to your network first let's plug together the power adapter and go ahead and plug it into the wall plug in to provided ethernet cable into the back of your router and plug the other end to the back of the DNS-323 also plug in the power adapter Press the power button you'll see the network activity light begin to light up on either side of the network activity light are the drive lights The drive light on the right begins to light up and notice the other drive light does not light up indicating an empty drive bay now that we set up the DNS-323 let's go to our computer and setup the software insert the cd that came with the DNS-323 into your computer if prompted go ahead and run the application when the D-Link two bay network storage enclosure window comes up select the easy search utility the application will automatically find your new drive on your network here you can also click the configuration button to change the device configuration but since this special edition DNS-323 comes pre-installed with a one terabyte of storage you don't need any additional configuration to use your new device what we'll do is map the drive to your computer for easy access to do this start by selecting the device from the network storage device window and under drive mapping select volume_1 under available drive letters leave it at letter Z and click connect the confirmation window pops up you know you have successfully mapped the DNS-323 to your computer click ok and exit the programs to finish to access the drive simply go to the Windows Start button click on computer or my computer depending on your version of windows and double click the newly-created drive from the list we used drive letter Z as you can see the drive is empty but you can drag and drop any files onto the drive and they will be available here as a backup we will back up the photo chrysanthemum by dragging the photo from the My Photo library folder to the DNS-323 on the Z drive as you can see the photo is now in both locations it's as simple as that