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volume again. After the NSA finishes the second repair, use the Expand icon to have the RAID1 volume use the rest of the hard disk capacity.

8.2.2 Storage Screen

Click Storage > Volume in the navigation panel to display the following screen. Use this screen to display internal and external volumes on the NSA.

Note: It is recommended to scan the volume every three months or 32 reboots.

Figure 87 Storage > Volume

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 24 Storage > Volume

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Internal/External

(2-bay models) These tables display information on all internal volumes (created on NSA

Volume

internal disk drives) and external volumes (created on external disk drives attached to

 

the NSA USB ports).

 

 

Create an Internal

(2-bay models) Click this to format internal hard drives and create a new volume. All

Volume

data on the disk(s) will be lost.

 

 

Create an External

(2-bay models) Click this to format an external hard drive and create a new volume. All

Volume

data on the disk will be lost.

 

 

SATA/USB Volume

(1-bay models) These tables display information on all internal SATA volumes (created

 

on NSA internal disk drives) and external volumes (created on external disk drives

 

attached to the NSA USB ports).

 

 

Create a SATA

(1-bay models) Click this to format internal hard drives and create a new volume. All

Volume

data on the disk(s) will be lost.

 

 

Create a USB

(1-bay models) Click this to format an external hard drive and create a new volume. All

Volume

data on the disk will be lost.

 

 

Status

This field shows whether the volume is Healthy, Resync, Recovering, Degraded, or

 

Down. See Section 8.4 on page 167 for details on a volume’s status.

 

 

Volume

The NSA creates the volume name automatically. You can edit it.

 

 

Disk Configuration

This field shows which disks and data storage system the volume is using.

 

 

File System

This field displays the file system that an external (USB) volume is using.

 

 

 

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