I purchased this aspire easystore to replace a 4drive nas unit whose capacity i hard nearly reached and whose hard drives were nearing the end of their lifespans. The software is standard windows 2003 server with whs, but with several valueadded acer applications. Select a program folder or enter a new folder, then. Should the programs prove defective following their purchase, the buyer and not acer incorporated, its distributor, or its dealer assumes the entire cost of all necessary servicing. I bought an atom based nas, the acer easystore h340 with specifications as follow. Aspire easystore h340, altos easystore m2 name of responsible party. Several months ago, a friend gave me an acer aspire easystore h340 nas. Acer america corporation address of responsible party. Alternative nassoftware fur acer aspire easystore h340. I own an hp ex485, not the acer h340, so i dont have any firsthand experience with them. The bad acers aspire easystore h340 is just a basic home serverbased networkattached storage server nas without any special features.
I installed whs 2011 on acer h340, all was fine, but it cause the problem os used 90% of ram. A couple of years ago i bought a acer aspire easystore h340 to use as a home nas device. While the h340 came with windows server, i decided to replace it with debian linux running on an external usb stick. For the acer aspire easystore h340 it is the bottom slot. Connect vga cable to debug 26pin connector on the motherboard. Please help me restore os for acer aspire easystore h340. How to build a linux media server headless alan ashton. Acer s easystore h340 is an interesting mix of characteristics.
There is another option for running freenas on the h340. Ersatz fur acer h340 whs gesucht, netzwerk router nas server. The max memory i believe for that chipset is 2 gb according to intel. Easystore h340 install software cannot find server acer. There were a great many failures, but it turns out one thing was the key to success. Turn on the home server and let it run for a while. An in depth look at running freenas on an acer easystore. I too decided to upgrade my acer h340 to whs2011, and i followed the famous jake thomas guidelines referred elsewhere in this forum many thanks to him for an indepth and very usefull description, based on initial installation from a client machine thru usb and then finalization on the h340. Place the aspire easystore h340 software installation disc in the optical drive of the home computer. I use forkeddaapd to stream flacs to itunes albeit with limited. Upgrading the acer aspire easystore h340 to windows home. Just swapped a couple of hdd for new ones to keep it humming. Besides the small downside of not being time machine compatable, i cannot think of a reason to buy any other nas whs over the acer easystore h340. Turn on the system to verify that it works and you can get to the bios setup by pressing on the keyboard.
Need help troubleshooting acer aspire easystore h340. The supermicro nas have 16 bays, of which i am currently using 6, so i figured i would go for the 2,5 version and use iscsi from the nas, then i can use some ssd and refurbished 1015k discs in the poweredge for io performance, and still have the ability to use 3. Page 4 any acer incorporated software described in this manual is sold or licensed as is. So how could you possibly install an os on to a machine without being able to see. Installation of the windows home server connector software.
In this techcast, we will focus on the microsoft windows home server operating system and the remote access features of the aspire easystore. But, none of the blue hard drive bay lights are on. As pointed out in happybisons tutorial, the h340 has an onboard 256mb flash memory drive that houses the installrecovery files for the provided windows home server operating system. Acer aspire easystore h340 windows home server caschys blog. Download acer support drivers by identifying your device first by entering your device serial number, snid, or model number. This is the cube server device that has 4 hard drives in it.
In this article you will find how to install the latest version. I used to have the acer h340, i think i always ran into problems with 2003 and memory. I just noticed that my easystore network server is dead. Through much trial and tribulation, i have finally been able to repeatedly, and reliably, install xpenology onto an acer aspire easystore h340 nas. First got my logitech mx revolution mouse charging problem fixed. Acer aspire easystore h340 user manual pdf download. Vintage nas aspire easystore h340 power supply substitution. I have been growing uneasiness about saving my files on the windows home server. To install the aspire easystore h340 software update utility. For the price, the h340 is the cheapest outofthebox solution for network storage, and adding the cost of freenas makes it that much more appealing. Acer aspire easystore h340 service manual pdf download. And now i have been playing around with ubuntu for a few days, trying to run it on the acer easystore h340 home server which was running my windows home server. After shutting down computer, put the new drive into the system drive slot on the home server.
Network interface problem installing ubuntu server on acer. The server doesnt offer raid, an ip camera, or printer. The server can silently pull backups from any network computers that have a windows home server console installed, and. The acer aspire easystore h340 is, at its core, a windowsbased computer powered by a 1. Sparsames nas mit softwareraid unter linux openmediavault. The one nice thing about the acer easystore h340 is it has a pci 1x slot for expandability. I recently had problems with one of the drives in my easystore h340, and although the replacement is on the way and all the data is backed up, trying to get the server working properly again has been nothing short of a perfect disaster. Acer aspire easystore h340 the motherboard of these servers has a kvm connector cn9 above that is made for connecting the keyboard, video and mouse. Erst einmal ein paar fotos des acer aspire easystore h340 windows home servers, oder. As i recall hardware wise the h340 and the ex470 are similar in that both motherboards were made by winstron and both use a hidden area on the motherboard called a smi for booting the server into recovery mode.
Recovering my acer aspire easystore h340, in need of oem cds im trying to get my old ass h340 back up and running but i cant for the life of me find the cds that came with my unit. Have had lots of issues with my old headless whs server which is an acer aspire easystore h340. The acer aspire easystore h340 offers an excellent backup solution for pcs. Besides using it for basic file storage, i use nginx to stream mp4s to roku devices throughout my home using roksbox. Enable debug mode on acer easystore h340 by putting a jumper jp3 on the motherboard. To receive the latest version installers of the connector software, configure the windows home server to use windows update. Identify your acer product and we will provide you with downloads, support articles and other online support resources that will help you get the most out of your acer product. Page 142 select a destination directory, then click next. As i recall hardware wise the h340 and the ex470 are similar in that both motherboards were made by winstron and both use a hidden area on the motherboard called a.
Still running the original os windows home server, but had a few hdd swap. Acer is better known for its laptops than its nas devices, but the aspire easystore is the latest in the companys line of network storage devices running microsofts windows home server whs. If you do i will leave a link to the model i use as my main nas box. Recovering my acer aspire easystore h340, in need of oem. Ich habe selbst mal schlechte erfahrungen mit acronis. Im a new naslite user from italy and i want to share with you my nas solution. H340 diagnostics you can run the h340 diagnostics to determine whether the problems with the system are caused by failing hardware, such as system fan, led board, hard disk drive, memory, etc. Update your h340 nas by installing ubuntu server edition, do this by. I cant ping it either and the router doesnt see it just like it didnt see the pc until i fixed the name in the interfaces file. My next big project may have to be on some kind of backup solution for my h340. I used both the old and the new servers to store and stream tens of thousands of media files of various types, to store important data files, and to backup several networked pcs.
After it was written, i plugged my drive into the h340 and booted up. My acer easy store homeserver is not showing up on the network, and i need to get it running again. Unable to connect to acer easystore h340 acer community. However, i did come across some info about the h340 when i was trying to decide between the two models. Acer easystore h340 2tb nas box the register forums. Where can i download installation software for acer. First i tested the acer server os hard drive by removing it and plugging it directly into my desktop. We were contacted by one of our readers yesterday to ask about this new bios and how to update it. Home server eine konkurrenz fur eines meiner zwei nas lg n2b1.
Problem is i cannot remember my login credentials so i need to do a factory reset. To receive the latest version installers of the connector software, configure the windows home server to. This connector is considered to be a service connector and you probably wont find official support for using this connector. Aspire easystore h340 network storage server pdf manual download. You must prepare a bootable usb device to run the tests on the system. Well, we have downloaded the bios but we dont know either what is. Despite all the troubles i think that the box itself is a thing of beauty and i really did not want to replace the hardware as with this box i have a 4 disk nas. Overall, i am pleased with freenas and especially pleased that i was able to get it running on my h340. The pc does not make the network connection, so it is not. The system hard drive had failed and up until recently i havent had any spare sata drives, so it collected dust on top of my desktop computer until i could find a drive for it. Last week acer released a bios update for its aspire easystore h340 windows home server.
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