The NST-271C31-BK enclosure power management function is designed to save the wear and tear of the installed hard drive or SSD. When the system goes into sleep mode or is power off, the enclosure will go into sleep mode. There is reports of hard drive spin down when it is at idle with the system still running. We have made a correction in the firmware to correct this issue.

Here is the link to the firmware.
https://www.vantecusa.com/CKEdit/images/files/NST-271C31-BK-Firmware_161028_B1_26_40.zip

You will need a Windows OS system to flash the firmware. Unzip and follow the instruction in the package to update the firmware of the enclosure.

If you are using strictly OS X, you may use Parallels or Boot Camp to aid in flashing the firmware.

 

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

 

There are changes to the Quick Installation Guide for NST-371C31-BK.

If you have purchase a unit and the installation screws instruction is not correct, please use this revised version.

https://www.vantecusa.com/CKEdit/files/NST-371C31-BK_QIG-color.pdf

 

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

 

 

RGB for controlling USB storage devices is a little new.

Normal RGB within a system relies on the RGB header on the motherboard to be connected to the RGB device to give you the RGB color and sync with the system RGB component.

There are two types of USB storage with RGB.

1) USB storage without MCU Chip (Micro Controller Unit), this type of RGB USB storage cannot sync with the system RGB controller and will flash random RGB without any control of the system RGB controller.

2) USB storage with MCU Chip (Micro Controller Unit), this type of RGB USB storage MCU will communicate with the system RGB controller and will be under the control of the system RGB controller. It is capable of displaying RGB color in sync with the system setting. This implementation of synable capability requires an RGB motherboard with the latest update of the RGB software (for the motherboard) to be fully functional. If your RGB motherboard cannot or does not have these capabilities, this synable RGB enclosure will still function, but the RGB will function independently (not synable). Our Synable RGB enclosure also offers an ON/OFF switch for the RGB function.

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

 

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

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

Here are the steps to setup RAID on the NST-272S3-BK.

1) Power ON your system, wait for the system to be fully booted up

2) Use a pen tip to change the RAID switch to the right setting

3) Power up the unit, plug in the USB cable to your system

4) Wait for the drive to spin up if this is HDD, If SSD go to the next step

5) Press and hold the reset button for 3 seconds (HDD LEDs will turn off)

6) Release the reset button and the built-in RAID controller will activate the RAID Mode based on the RAID dip switch setting

7) The RAID is now ready to be initialize, partition and formatted for the Operating System you are using before it can store data

8) For Windows, use Disk Management. For OS X, use Disk Utility

For detail instruction refer to the FAQ "How to preparing a New storage, Hard Drive, or SSD for use with a system?" 

 

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.