User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Setting up Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Setup Overview
- Set up my px6-300d Network Storage if it's not discovered
- Setup Page
- Network Connection
- Connecting the px6-300d
- Naming Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Configuring Your px6-300d Network Storage to Use Active Directory
- Customizing the Access to Features on Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Obtaining Alerts About Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Tracing Events on Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Obtaining System Status for Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Using Your px6-300d Network Storage in Various Time Zones
- Setting the Display Language for Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Printing Documents
- Setting up Personal Cloud, Security, and File Sharing
- Sharing Files
- Sharing Overview
- Shares
- Using Protocols to Share Files
- What Are Protocols and How Do I Use Them to Share Files?
- AFP File Sharing for Macs
- Bluetooth File Sharing
- FTP File Sharing
- NFS File Sharing
- rsync: Synchronizing Files with Another Storage Device or Other Computers
- TFTP
- Monitoring Your Device with an SNMP Management Tool
- Managing File Sharing with Web Access (http/https)
- WebDAV: Managing Files Using HTTP or HTTPS
- Windows DFS: Creating a Distributed Windows File System
- Windows File Sharing
- Sharing Content through the Home Page
- Automatically Sending Content to Multiple People at Once
- Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview
- Managing Your Content
- Transferring Content to and from Your px6-300d Network Storage with Copy Jobs
- Getting Content from a USB External Storage Device
- One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device
- iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN)
- Storage Pool Management
- Drive Management
- Backing up and Restoring Your Content
- Securing Your px6-300d Network Storage and Contents
- Remote Access: Accessing Your px6-300d Network Storage From Anywhere in the W...
- Personal Cloud: Accessing Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud From Anywhere in the ...
- What Is LenovoEMC Personal Cloud ?
- Is My Content Secure?
- LenovoEMC Personal Cloud Setup Overview
- Creating LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Configuring Router Port Forwarding for Personal Cloud
- Configuring Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Inviting People onto Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Joining a Trusted Device to LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Managing Trusted Devices on a Personal Cloud
- Using Copy Jobs with a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Disabling or Deleting Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Accessing Content Using Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Informing Users What to Do with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Sharing Content Using Social Media
- Media Management
- Adding Applications to Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Upgrading Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Backing up and Recovering Your px6-300d Network Storage Settings
- Hardware Management
- Additional Support
- Legal
- Safety Information
- Open Source
- Warranty Information
- Regulatory Information
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement
- Canadian Verification
- European Union - Compliance to the Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive
- Important WEEE Information
- European Union RoHS
- India RoHS
- Lithium Battery – California Perchlorate Information
- Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Cable and Cord Notice
- Recycling and environmental information
- Export classification notice
- Copyright and Trademark Information
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Managing Drives
The Drive Management page provides settings for managing storage and lets you apply global settings for
drives on your px6-300d Network Storage.
Setting Write Caching
Select a value for disk write caching.
Write caching is a mechanism that attempts to separate the fast processing speed of the px6-300d from
the relatively slow mechanics of actually writing data to drive.
With write caching disabled, every write to drive causes the px6-300d to wait while the data is written to
drive, which can slow performance. When write caching is enabled and the px6-300d sends a write request
to the drive, it writes the data to cache (which is much faster) and sends an immediate acknowledgement
to the px6-300d saying the write is complete. The system proceeds without waiting for the data to actually
get written to drive, which occurs in the background.
While write caching does improve performance, there are some risks. The system responds that the data
is written to drive when in fact it has only been written to cache. Should the px6-300d lose power, any data
not completely written to drive is lost forever.
This is because cache memory is volatile. If you lose power, the contents of the cache are lost. Therefore,
if there were any pending writes in the cache that were not written to the drive, they will be lost forever.
Using a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) can mitigate the risk associated with write caching, which is
why it is recommended to only enable this feature when a UPS is connected.
Applying Global Drive Management Settings
1. Click Settings.
2. Check Add drives to storage system to add a newly installed drive. You see this option only if
there is at least one unused drive on the px6-300d.
3. To change the protection, choose a value from the drop-down menu:
● Mirror (RAID 1)
Uses half of the storage space for protection, leaving half for actual data.
● Mirror Stripe (RAID 10)
Uses half of the storage space for protection, leaving half for actual data.
● Parity (RAID 5)
Uses the space corresponding to one drive-size for protection, leaving remaining space for
storing actual data.
● Double Parity (RAID 6)
Combines six or more drives in a way that protects data against loss of any two drives.
● Striped (RAID 0)
Distributes data across several drives in a way that gives improved speed at any given
instant.
● None
Turns off data protection and leaves your data vulnerable to data loss.
4. Select a value for disk write caching.
Drive Management
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