User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- 1. Getting Started
- Start Using Your ReadyNAS System
- Additional Documentation
- Supported ReadyNAS Systems
- Supported Operating Systems
- Supported Browsers
- Diskless Systems
- Basic Installation
- Upgrade Pre-6.2 ReadyNAS Firmware for Use With ReadyCLOUD
- Discover and Set Up Your ReadyNAS Using ReadyCLOUD
- Local Setup Wizard
- Admin Page
- Access the Local Admin Page
- Register Your System
- Five Levels of Protection
- The ReadyNAS Community
- Safe Mode
- 2. Volume Configuration
- Basic Volume and RAID Concepts
- ReadyTIER, Tiers, Data, and Metadata
- Manage Volumes
- Change RAID Mode
- View the Status of a Volume
- Configure the Checksum Function
- Format Disks
- Create and Encrypt a Volume
- Delete a Volume
- Name a USB Drive
- Expand Storage Capacity
- Add Protection to a Volume
- Add Protection to a Flex-RAID Volume
- Add a Group to a Flex-RAID Volume
- Delete a RAID Group
- Use the Volume Management Wizard to Create a Volume
- Add a Tier to a Volume
- Enable or Disable Quotas on Volumes
- Maintain Volumes
- 3. Shares
- 4. LUNs
- 5. Snapshots
- 6. Users and Groups
- 7. Use Cloud Services
- 8. System Settings
- 9. System Power
- 10. Install and Manage Apps
- 11. System Monitoring
- 12. System Maintenance
- 13. Backup and Recovery
To register your ReadyNAS system:
1. Locate the serial number of the system.
You can find the serial number on the Overview page of the Admin Page or on the
chassis label of your product.
2. Open a web browser and visit http://www.NETGEAR.com/register.
3. Take one of the following actions:
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If you never registered a NETGEAR product, click the REGISTER NOW button.
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If you registered a NETGEAR product in the past, enter your email address and
password and click the LOG IN button. Enter the serial number and date of
purchase, then click Register.
4. Follow the prompts.
The ReadyNAS is registered.
Five Levels of Protection
File and data protection strategies such as various RAID levels or snapshots can go only
so far in protecting data from loss, but ReadyNAS OS provides five separate strategies
that work together to provide substantially better protection than any one strategy.
The different levels of disk redundancy provided by RAID types provide degrees of file
protection from the loss of one or more disks, but cannot do anything about accidental
deletion or corruption; can mask, but not prevent, gradual corruption caused by the
slow degradation of the disks; and cannot provide protection from a site disaster.
Software Manual21Getting Started
ReadyNAS OS 6.10