As he does with pretty much every piece of review hardware that crosses his desk, he disassembled it to find out what was inside. The backstory, of which I was unaware, is that my office-mate/husband had got to the Sentinel DX4000 before me. Western Digital Sentinel DX4000 Fan cable As a matter of fact, it was a great opportunity for me to discover that WD has built in an emergency thermal shutdown mechanism, which works like a hot damn, pun not intended. Huge disclaimer: what happened to me next is in no way typical of the installation process, nor should it reflect poorly on Western Digital. That’s only if you share an office with Trevor Pott.Ī small detour, containing no electrical fires at all. Or check to see if the server is about to light itself on fire.
You don’t need to do anything more than eat a sandwich and watch the progress bar. It is automated and takes about a half hour. Do not Power off or disconnect the WD Sentinel server.” After the server had been restarted – this time with reliable network connectivity – the DX4000 worked as advertised.Īt this point in the setup, the DX4000 asks for some basic information (the name of your server, an administrator password, and your preferred update settings) and the installation begins.
#WESTERN DIGITAL WD SENTINEL DX4000 PLEX INSTALL#
Once the cable was fixed, I blithely ignored the section of the Quick Install Guide which stated, “Do not interrupt the process. When I tried to talk to it via a browser, I got this: You can navigate to the IP address via a browser, download the setup wizard onto your client computer, and follow the detailed instructions and screenshots in the Quick Installation Guide. Cue ominous music.Īfter you power on the Sentinel DX4000 for the first time, it will run its OS install – which takes a few minutes – and then display an IP address. Instead of using it, I plugged in a longer cable that was handily lying around the office and which reached to the router from my workstation. The ethernet cable is a perfectly nice ethernet cable. (Aunt Millie furrows her brow in confusion.) I plugged in both. Then a little later, in a contradictory paper insert, it depicts plugging in both. Redundant power supply? Sounds good! The Quick Install Guide says to only plug in one of them. The adaptors caused some momentary head scratching.
#WESTERN DIGITAL WD SENTINEL DX4000 PLEX PDF#
The DX4000 ships with an ethernet cable, two AC adaptors, and a Quick Install Guide, which is the dead tree version of the pdf found here.
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