How to Setup and Operate Your Business NAS (Network Attached Storage)

  • How to set up your Business NAS

How to set up your Business NAS

Does your business need NAS?

If you’re an entrepreneur or running a small business, you want to be ready to grow, right? And the most critical piece of infrastructure to make sure you can grow is the ability to manage all your data — the stuff you create, access, analyze or output. So you probably already have a NAS (network attached storage) or are planning to get one soon.

Call it a private cloud, RAID protection, small-office remote-access server, or workgroup backup. You probably already know the features you want, and you may know the features Seagate Business NAS products offer and how easy they make your job. Small businesses, especially, will want to know about the powerful but simple-to-setup features of the Seagate NAS Pro 2-Bay, 4-Bay, 6-Bay products that offer scalable storage — up to 30TB even in just one NAS device. The NAS Pro also comes ready to run with Seagate NAS OS 4, a uniquely simple NAS operating system providing quick, anywhere access to your private cloud and all of your centralized files, along with third-party apps and other super-practical storage features.

Examples of how NAS can work for your business

For example, when you’re working remotely and need to access your files? Just check the Seagate Sdrive — the easiest, most intuitive way to connect to your NAS Pro if you’re away from the office and need to look for or grab a file. From any desktop or laptop, access your NAS Pro by clicking the Sdrive icon (from Computer or Finder). Go ahead and drag-and-drop files, or search for that particular file and open it directly with its native application. From your smartphone, you can securely and easily access your files from the Sdrive as well.

And you’ll want the flexibility of NAS OS4’s support for many apps. Both the apps that ship with every NAS Pro, like Seagate Antivirus to protect your data and systems from the most volatile threats and Seagate Surveillance Manager which turns your NAS into a full-featured NVR (Network Video Recorder) — and the many third party apps for NAS Pro including WordPress web publishing tool for creating blogs and websites without limits, BitTorrent Sync which lets you sync and share unlimited files and folders across all of your trusted devices, Pydio the an open source software that instantly turns your server into a file sharing platform, or online backup solution ElephantDrive optimized for Seagate NAS OS, enabling simple, secure, and affordable cloud storage.

So you got a new NAS?

Seagate Business NAS uses only hard drives certified for use in Network Attached Storage solutions

Be sure to install hard drives certified for NAS workloads

But what about after the NAS is delivered and setup? Whether you’ve already deployed or plan to deploy a NAS, I thought it’d be helpful to link you to these key steps below, so you’ll know the various steps to take to set it up, and how to operate the NAS hardware and its software app features. Follow the links under each bullet:

How to set up your NAS

How to operate your NAS

 

Who is John Paulsen? A former small-business leader myself, I feel your pain (and joy) and hope you’ll enjoy the blog. I launched and ran a well-regarded production company in San Francisco with a team of 9 brilliant, hard working people. I learned to manage a wide array of tasks a small business must handle — business strategy, facilities design, HR, payroll, taxes, marketing, all the way down to choosing telecom equipment and spec’ing a server system to help my team collaborate in real-time on dense media projects from multiple production rooms. I’ve partnered with and learned from dozens of small business owners.

2015-03-06T20:24:30+00:00

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