The physical installation procedure takes only a matter of minutes, but the drive must be configured before it is ready for use. You need to give the drive a clean FAT32 format before you can use the drive, which you can do over the web admin interface. This means that if you have any existing data on the drive it would be wise to remove this first.

If you plug the Landisk drive into a router, it will automatically be assigned an IP address on your LAN. Simply type this (or the host name you assign it) into Internet Explorer and you will be taken to the web admin page:

This will allow you to configure network shares, FTP access and other disk tools (such as scandisk). SMB shares can be created which will show up as you browse your network in Windows, and these are stored as individual directories on the disk. This allows you to split your storage into any way required (i.e. a share for Photos, Movies, Documents etc...):

The FTP function will let you connect from a remote computer to transfer information to/from the NAS disk. This is a great feature if you need to back up information to your home from an outside source. This can use separate shares to the normal SMB list and will likely require some configuration from your router.