Click Here to download specs and steps for replacing the FAN in the NST-387S3-BK enclosure.

We carry a few products that use the USB 3.0 20 pin header.
We follow Intel USB 3.0 20 pin header pinout specification. If your 20 pin header on your motherboard does not follow this standard, it may not be compatible with our product. Here are the pinout specs.

Products using this standard are HDA-502H, UGT-IH203, HDA-302H, UGT-CR935.

Please note the jumper on the converter by default is on the Master setting. Since this is connecting to a single device, it should always on the Master setting. 
There is no need to change the jumper setting to slave. 

If you are using a very old IDE device (non-ATAPI) and using the Master jumper is not working, please try slave setting.

If you need further help, please write to technical support at support@vantecusa.com 

 

latest OS X drivers for Catalina OS

https://www.vantecusa.com/CKEdit/files/RTUNICv1_0_22_Update4.zip

 

What is Proposition 65?

Proposition 65 requires businesses to provide warnings to Californians about significant exposures to chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.  These chemicals can be in the products that Californians purchase, in their homes or workplaces, or that are released into the environment. By requiring that this information be provided, Proposition 65 enables Californians to make informed decisions about their exposures to these chemicals.

 

Why the Prop 65 warning label?

Warnings are based on a compile list of chemicals published by the State of California (over 800 and growing) which may pose an increased risk of cancer and/or reproductive harm if exposed to minimum levels, also known as Safe Harbor levels are exceeded. These warnings are widespread within California and can be found across many industries including food and beverage sales, clothing sales, furniture sales, automotive repair, electronics, etc.

 

Should I be concerned about the safety of your products?

Although you should always be aware and take notice of any product warning, a Prop 65 warning does not mean that a product is unsafe. The State of California’s website states, “A Prop 65 warning does not necessarily mean that a product violates any product-safety standards or requirements.” 

 

For more information please refer to this link: https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/

Dear Users,

Thanks for choosing Vantec Link USB 3.0 Type C Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (CB-CU310GNA).
You can find the drivers for this product in the product itself or via our website. When you connect the adapter to your working computer, you will see a virtual drive. The virtual drive will have Windows OS Drivers only.
We also provide the latest drivers on our website. Here is the support tab that has the drivers and manual: https://vantecusa.com/products_detail.php?p_id=271#tab-3

From time to time when new drivers are available, we will update with the latest.

If you have further question, please feel free to write to VantecUSA support for more information: 

Click Here to email for help

 

 

On some batch of NST-536S3-BK, the LED on the enclsoure is always ON even when system goes to sleep and the enclosure goes to sleep.
This firmware correct the LED not turning OFF when the enclosure goes to sleep.

If you are experiencing this issue, this firmware will correct this problem.

Note: This firmware is for correcting this LED issue only, besides this LED problem, the product is stable and do not require any other correction. If you are not experience this LED issue, DO NOT Flash this firmware.

Warning: Flashing firmware do involve risk of bricking your enclosure, please use with caution and follow the instructions closely. 

Here is the link to the firmware:

https://www.vantecusa.com/CKEdit/files/NST-536S3-BK_Firmware_V148-06-00-01_20220506.zip

There are two set of instruction. One for Windows OS and another for OS X. Please use the right set of instruction for your System.

 

>>>>>> 1) Preparing a new hard drive for use with Windows 7/8/10 OS <<<<<<

 

NOTE: If you have important data on this drive, DO NOT go any further, please backup your data before you continue. These steps will erase ALL your data on the drive.

 

For Windows 7, hold the Windows logo key on your keyboard and press “R” (Winkey+R). This will launch the Run the utility. Type “diskmgmt.msc” inside the text box and press Enter. This will open the Windows Disk Management utility. This is where you can format, create, and delete hard drive partitions.

 

For Windows 8/8.1/10, hold the Windows logo key on your keyboard and press “X” (Winkey+X). This will launch a popup window and select disk management.

 

Usually, the Initialize Disk Wizard will appear automatically when you open Disk Management. If you have more than one blank drive that needs to be initialized it will list them. Make sure that there is a check in the box of the drive that needs to be initialized, select check MBR if your hard drive is smaller than 2TB, if it is greater than 2TB, please check GPT and then left-click on the Ok button. If the wizard does show up, go to step 5. If the wizard does not show up, please see the note and additional images directly below.

 

 

   Critical: If your hard drive is greater than 2TB in capacity, you need to use check GPT(GUID Partition Table), if it is smaller, select MBR. 

 

Note: If you do not see the Initialize Disk wizard, manually start the initialization. The drive that needs to be initialized should have a little circle with a red arrow pointing down like in the image below.

 

 

When you find it. Right-click on the red arrow and choose Initialize Disk.

 

 

There are two mode of initializing a new drive using MBR or GPT. If your hard drive is greater than 2TB, you need to use check GPT, if it is smaller, select MBR.

 

 

The drive is now initialized. The disk should have a black bar and say that it is Unallocated. You should now be able to create a partition and format the hard drive.

 

 

Now right click the unallocated space and click create a New Simple Volume shown below:

 

 

Follow the on screen wizard by clicking Next

 

 

Specify your volume size, if you are not sure use the default, and now click Next

 

 

Assign a drive letter to the drive, if you are not sure use the default and click Next

 

 

Format the partition and name the volume, if you are not sure use the default

 

 

Now click Finish and it will start formatting the drive to get it ready for use.

 

 

Once the formatting is done, your system will report the presense of a new drive with an assigned drive letter. You can begin using the storage.

 

 

>>>>>> 2) Preparing a new hard drive for use with Apple OS X <<<<<<

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If this is an existing HDD with Windows OS boot from your motherboard and now you move to the UGT-ST644R, it will never boot because your OS is already locked in the registry to your motherboard chipset, and moving the drive to this card using Marvell chipset will either not boot or blue screen (BSOD).

If you are doing a new install of the OS, it will be fine.

This controller do not support UEFI booting, it will not see the controller and the drive(s) attached to the controller

 

USE WIFI device without APPS.

EOL no longer has any update to support under the Apps store, but it is still usable via PC using Windows OS, here is how.

First, you can connect using a USB 3.0 cable to your system and still access it like a normal hard drive dock.

Second, via WIFI per below:

The current firmware is 1.1.68, if your device is not running the current version of the firmware, please download the firmware version 1.1.68 from the following link and try updating the firmware.

Unzip and then follow the instruction from the file. There are 3 methods of updating, Use the last method which is the easiest.

https://www.vantecusa.com/CKEdit/images/files/nst-260ws3_ap_firmware1168.zip

After updated, try the following steps in this sequence carefully:

Wired mode using USB connection as a USB storage device:

1. Connect the USB cable to the enclosure and to your system.
2. Make sure your system is already powered ON.
3. Power ON the enclosure.
4. If this is a new drive, it will need to be initialized, partition and formatted using Disk management, just like any USB hard drive.
5. The disk in the enclosure MUST be formatted in NTFS.
6. Once the system can see the drive correctly, it is ready to use.

Wireless mode using Computer (Windows XP/7/8/8.1/10):

1. For WiFi mode, make sure no USB is connected to the WiFi enclosure device and power it ON.
2. Wait 40 Seconds for the WiFi to be ready.
3. Connect using your computer WiFi to the NexStar-WiFi access point
4. If you are using Windows 10, please enable SAMBA support in the last section (Turn ON access to files on Network Devices using SMBv1 in Windows 10) and come back here to continue.
5. Once connected, To access the files in the WiFi enclosure, use your Windows Explorer (not browser) and enter ”\10.10.10.254”, the “\” is important.
6. You will be prompted with a login window, use “admin” for username and “admin” for a password.
7. You should now see your files and folders in the WiFi enclosure .

Wifi Tether

Try the following steps in this sequence carefully:

1. Power ON the WiFi enclosure and wait 40 Seconds for the wireless signal to be ready.
2. Connect using your computer WIFI to the NexStar-WiFi access point
3. To access the management page, use your browser (IE/Chrome/FireFox) using the URL “10.10.10.254”.
4. That will bring up the NexStar WiFi configuration menu.
5. You should see menu item like "STATUS", "SYSTEM", "NETWORK", "WIFI", "SECURITY", and “TOOLS”.
6. Select WIFI menu, It will give you a list of WiFi available and one of them is your router access point.
7. Select your router access point and enter the appropriate Wireless password.
8. You will get connected and you should see your router access point name and “connected”
9. Once this is done, you should have access to the internet and this WiFi enclosure.
10. If you have another computer using WiFi that are connected to the NexStar-WiFi, they can also access the internet at this point without doing any change.
11. If you want to know if this WiFi enclosure is tether to your access point, Select “STATUS” in step #5 and it should show Connected AP with your Router name on the right.

Just remember:

1. To access files use your Windows Explorer or File Explorer (not Browser) and enter ”\10.10.10.254”, the “\” is important. You will be prompted with a login window, use “admin” for username and “admin” for a password.
2. To access the management page, use your Internet Browser (IE/Chrome/FireFox) using the URL “10.10.10.254”.

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Turn ON access to files on Network Devices using SMBv1 in Windows 10

If you have problems with accessing network files, your device may still be using the SMB version 1 protocol, which may have been automatically uninstalled on Windows 10 due to its security concerns. For issues in Windows 10 versions ,please check the Microsoft Support Site. This might be the reason why you can no longer connect to routers, Network-Attached Storage (NAS) via SMB.

 

Here we provide you a temporary solution which allows you to enable the SMBv1 protocol to regain access to files stored within the network. 

If you do not have the direct access to the device running the SMB service, please follow the steps below to temporarily enable the SMBv1 protocol for the purpose of retrieving your files:

Step 1. Open Control Panel in your PC/Notebook.

Step 2. Click on Programs.

Step 3. Click on Turn Windows features on or off link.

Step 4. Expand the SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support option.

Step 5. Check the SMB 1.0/CIFS Client option.

Step 6. Click the OK button.

Step 7. Click the Restart now button.

After completing the above steps, you will be able to connect to network devices running the SMBv1 protocol on your local network by your Windows 10 computer.

 

 

During normal operation with RAID or non-RAID configuration:

Normal LED function:

	HDD 1 LED	HDD 2 LED	HDD Power
Power	ON	ON	ON
HDD 1 Disk Access	Random Blinks	SOLID ON	ON
HDD2 Disk Access	Solid ON	Random Blinks	ON
No Disk Access	SOLID ON	SOLID ON	ON
Sleep Mode	OFF	OFF	OFF
PC Power OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF
USB Ejected	OFF	OFF	OFF

 

For Individual Mode operation, LED (blue) function:

	HDD 1 LED	HDD 2 LED
HDD 1 Disk Access	Random Blinks	SOLID ON
HDD2 Disk Access	Solid ON	Random Blinks
HDD 1 Defective	LED OFF	LED ON
HDD 2 Defective	LED ON	LED OFF

 

 

For RAID 1 Mode operation, LED (blue) function:

	HDD 1 LED	HDD 2 LED
RAID 1 Degraded (HDD 1 bad)	LED OFF	LED ON (Normal, blink during disk access)
RAID 1 Degraded (HDD 2 bad)	LED ON (Normal, blink during disk access)	LED OFF
RAID Rebuild	LEDs blink during the rebuilding	LEDs blink during the rebuilding
RAID Rebuild Complete	LED ON, Random blink, back to normal	LED ON, Random blink, back to normal

 

 

For RAID 0 Mode operation, LED (blue) function:

	HDD 1 LED	HDD 2 LED
RAID 0, Normal, No Disk Access	LED ON	LED ON
RAID 0, Normal, Disk Access	LED ON, blink during disk access	LED ON, blink during disk access
RAID 0 (HDD 1 bad)	LED OFF or SOLID (depend on the drive)	SOLID ON
RAID 0 (HDD 2 bad)	SOLID ON	LED OFF or SOLID ON (depend on the drive)

 

RAID Dip switch and RAID LED setting:

To change Mode, turn on the unit with drives, change the Dip Switch, and hold the reset button for 3 seconds.
Note: Change mode will erase all the data on the drives.

RAID Mode	Dip Switch	LED
Normal	Down  |  Down	ON  |  OFF  |  OFF
RAID 0	Up  |  Up	OFF  |  OFF  |  ON
RAID 1	Up  |  Down	OFF  |  ON  |  OFF

 

 

Linux support for this product is using native CM106 sound setting.

Update to the Quick Installation Guide for mounting M.2

https://www.vantecusa.com/CKEdit/images/UGT-M2STS3-BK_QIG_correction.jpg