Chapter 7 Storage

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 22 Storage > Create an Internal Volume

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Volume Name

Type a volume name from 1 to 31 characters. To avoid confusion, it is

 

highly recommended that each volume use a unique name.

 

Acceptable characters are all alphanumeric characters, " " [spaces],

 

"_" [underscores], and "." [periods].

 

The first character must be alphanumeric (A-Z 0-9).

 

The last character cannot be a space " ".

 

For an external volume, type a volume name from 1 to 32 single-byte

 

(no Chinese characters allowed for example) ASCII characters. The

 

name cannot be the same as another existing external volume.

 

 

JBOD

Use this if you want maximum storage capacity and/or you have other

 

means of protecting your data. JBOD is the only option if you only

 

have one disk installed. With two disks, you can choose to create a

 

JBOD volume on one of the disks or both.

 

 

RAID 0

Use this if you want maximum speed for your disks, and/or you have

 

other means of protecting your data. This is only available when you

 

have two hard disks installed.

 

 

RAID 1

Use this if you want to mirror all data on one disk to the other disk.

 

This is only available when you have two hard disks installed.

 

 

Volume will be

This field lists all hard disks installed inside the NSA. Select which

created on

disks should make up this volume. A disk can only belong to one

 

volume. You do not need to select anything if only one hard disk is

 

installed.

 

 

Apply

Click this to save your changes and create the volume.

 

 

Cancel

Click this to exit this screen without saving your changes or creating a

 

volume.

 

 

Note: Once you create the first volume on the NSA, it is recommended to restart the NSA for better performance.

7.3.1 Volume Status

You (the administrator) can see the status of a volume in the Status or Storage screens.

The NSA has the following classifications for the status of a volume:

•Healthy if all disks in the volume are OK and the file system is functioning properly.

•OK means the USB connected device is functioning properly.

•Resync when you create a RAID volume.

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