Asustor AS6404T NAS Review

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Software Installation

Software Installation

After installing your HDD(s), connecting it to your Ethernet and powering it up, within a minute or so the HDD LEDs will light up and you'll hear a beep.
  

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The device is now ready for setup. So you can access the NAS directly from your browser. You surely have a smartphone right? Simply go to the app store and install FING, scan your network and see at what IP the NAS is located. The NAS acccepts a DHCP lease and should be present. If not:

Alternatively install the software supplied on the CDROM on your PC, it will detect and install the device. However, if you are a little more familiar with these things, then you can scan your network (use your smartphone and install an app like Fing). Once your NAS unit is listed with an IP you can access the NAS by typing that IP into your browser. The screen shown above will now show. 

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If (like 99% of you) you have a router in your network providing DHCP based internet, your NAS will already have gotten an IP and Internet variables like DNS acquired. The first thing it'll do is see if there is new firmware (ADM) available. You should update with the Live Update function. The Firmware will automatically download and install, a process that takes merely a minute or so. ALWAYS update your firmware to the latest revision when an update is ready. These updates not only introduce new software, they apply security and vulnerability fixes as well. If you make your NAS publicly available though http / ssh / MariaDB (mysql) or FTP then always update.

 

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Once your NAS has installed the firmware you'll hear a beep, then it will be rebooted and continue in your browser. If not, type in the local IP again e.g. 192.168.0.56 or whatever the NAS is located at.
 

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During the 1-click setup (which is tremendously easy) insert a NAS unit name and password, and from there on you can follow a simple wizard to set up your device and configure it in your network.
 

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Again, the NAS will detect and set up DHCP lease if it can and it will retain that assigned IP. You could manually configure it as a self set IP as well though - as you do not want your NAS unit located at another IP after each router restart, totally up to you of course. Later on we'd advise you to set up a new super-user and kill the admin account if you connect the box to an open network, for now admin with your own secure password will do. On the topic of routers; should you like to have your public web-content and, say, FTP available on the internet, then in the router setup open up TCP ports 80 and 21 for IP 192.168.0.xxx / 10.0.0.xxx after which your router will redirect all in- and outgoing requests to the assigned IP. Once the automated setup is complete the unit will log in to the admin interface. 

 

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Once the NAS went through a couple of setup stages we can now log in based on the logon / password we just created. We recommend you to register an account at ASUSTOR as you will want to have access to their NAS APPs.
 

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Now for the daring, ASUSTOR did just release a public BETA of the new ADM 3.0 software, we downloaded and installed that manually. A word of warning, it wasn't a smooth update. The first install failed, the installation process hung at 33% and figured, let's remain there. After a reboot and a second try it worked fine though. The perks of using a beta I guess.
 

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