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Chapter 8 Storage

Media Server User’s Guide

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The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 23

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. JBOD is the only option for the
NSA310S.

Select which disks to use for this volume (disk1, disk2, or disk1 and disk2). A disk can only
belong to one volume. You do not need to select anything if only one hard disk is installed.

For the NSA310:

•

Internal Disk - Is the hard disk inside an NSA310.

•

External Disk - Is the eSATA hard disk connected to an NSA310.

PC Compatible
Volume

(NSA310 only)

This type is only available if you have attached an eSATA hard disk to your NSA.

A primary partition is created on the eSATA hard disk.

Use this to make your eSATA hard disk readable by other computer systems. However, the
computer’s platform (for example, Windows XP SP2) should support the file system you
selected for the eSATA hard disk.

•

External Disk - This is checked automatically. It refers to the eSATA hard disk that you

can attach as a second drive to your NSA310.

•

File System - Select the file system you want the new volume to use.
Windows file systems include:

NTFS: Recommended for volumes greater than 40 GB.

FAT32: Newer, and more efficient than FAT16. Supports a volume size of up to 32 GB

(Giga Bytes) and individual file sizes of up to 4 GB.

FAT16: Compatible with older Windows operating systems. Supports volume and file

sizes of up to 2 GB.

Linux file systems include:

EXT2: Most commonly used on Linux platforms.

EXT3: The same as EXT2, but adds a journaled file system and is more robust.

EXT4: Supports larger files and better performance than EXT3.

ReiserFS: Offers better performance for small files.

XFS: Allows expansion for mounted volumes.

RAID 0

(2-bay models only)

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
created on

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