SETUP

 
Although you can now use your smartphone to initialize the NAS we'll be doing things the old fashion way via the ASUSTOR Control Center and a web browser.

Of course in order to initialize the NAS an HDD is needed in bay 1.

The installation wizard will ask you to either update the firmware of the NAS automatically from the internet or manually (you will need to download it first) as seen above.

Next step will be to format the mounted drive, create partitions, install the firmware and restart the NAS.

After that you can choose between the fast 1-click setup and the custom setup (typically we followed the custom route).

Via the custom route you will need to set the server name (if you don't like the default one), server password, time zone, network options and configure the drives (single/RAID/JBOD) in order to proceed.

At the end of the setup procedure you can choose to automatically install apps based on the type of usage you plan for the NAS (Home/Personal or Business).