ASUSTOR AS-606T Review – Setting it up

November 16, 2012 Andy

ASUSTOR AS-606T - Initialising the NAS — Initialize NAS? Yes! Of course!

Setting up of the ASUSTOR AS-606T is straight forward. You know the drills:

Pop out the drive trays / caddies
Put in the hard drives and secure them to the drive tray
Pop in the loaded drive trays
Initialise the NAS and have fun

So what hard drives will be going into the ASUSTOR NAS this time round? I have decided to go Green this time round. Yes, Western Digital Green hard disk drives.

ASUSTOR AS-606T - The Western Digital Green drives that will be going in — The Western Digital Green drives that will be going in

The drive trays

The drive trays are made of metal and plastic. The portion that is holding the hard disk is made of metal while the front part where the handle/lever is location is made of plastic. There are no options of locking the drive tray though.

ASUSTOR AS-606T - The top and bottom of the drive tray / caddie — The top and bottom of the drive tray / caddie

There are also no rubber grommets for the screw area to dampen the hard disk vibrations. Well, this is not an issue as the hard drives don’t really rattle.

ASUSTOR AS-606T - No rubber grommets to dampen the hard disk vibrations — No rubber grommets to dampen the hard disk vibrations

The clear strips of plastic is certainly new to me. They transmit the light all the way to the front to show you the HDD status. I think other products simply built the light indicators on the enclosure itself. ASUSTOR probably did this to consolidate the circuitry at the back of the NAS enclosure so that it can be more easily assembled or disassembled.

ASUSTOR AS-606T - These two plastic strips transmit light all the way in front to show you the HDD status — These two plastic strips transmit light all the way in front to show you the HDD status

Now to the screws. ASUSTOR has provided two sizes. The left (shorter) one is for 2.5″ hard disk drive while the right (taller/longer) one is for 3.5″ hard disk drive mounting.

ASUSTOR AS-606T - The two different sized screws. The left one is for 2.5" drives while the right one is for 3.5" drives — The two different sized screws. The left one is for 2.5″ drives while the right one is for 3.5″ drives

Setting it up

ASUSTOR AS-606T - In goes the Western Digital Green drives — In goes the Western Digital Green drives

Once the hard disks are mounted onto the drive trays / caddies. Slide them into the ASUSTOR AS-606T. Hook up the network cable(s) and power cable and it is good to go!

To initialise the ASUSTOR NAS, you can use any of the three methods below:

Through the ASUSTOR Control Center (from the Installation CD)
Using a web browser. Simply navigate to the IP Address of the ASUSTOR NAS
Using the LCD display as seen in the picture above

Simply let it do its own initialisation. Once it is complete, navigate to the ASUSTOR NAS’s IP shown on the LCD display and login to the web administration page using the “admin” user account (password is “admin” without the quotes).

The different parts of ASUSTOR AS-606T review

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