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Storage Pools
A storage pool is designed to aggregate physical hard disk drives into a large storage space
and to provide enhanced RAID protection for it. You can perform the following actions to
manage storage pools:
 Creating New Storage Pools
 Removing Storage Pools
 Safely Detaching Storage Pools
 Expanding Storage Pools
 Setting a Threshold
 Setting Snapshot Reservation
 Creating New Volumes for Storage Pools
 Creating New iSCSI LUNs for Storage Pools
Note:
 This feature is only applicable to the following NAS models: TS-269L, TS-269 Pro,
TS-469 Pro, TS-469L, TS-469U-RP, TS-469U-SP, TS-470 Pro, TS-470, TS-569 Pro,
TS-569L, TS-669 Pro, TS-669L, TS-670 Pro, TS-670, TS-869 Pro, TS-869L,
TS-869U-RP, TS-870 Pro, TS-870, TS-870U-RP, TS-879 Pro, TS-879U-RP, TS-1079 Pro,
TS-1269U-RP, TS-1270U-RP, TS-1279U-RP, TS-1679U-RP, TS-EC879U-RP,
TS-EC1279U-RP, TS-EC1279U-SAS-RP, TS-EC1679U-RP, TS-EC1679U-SAS-RP,
SS-EC1279U-SAS-RP, SS-EC1879U-SAS-RP and SS-EC2479U-SAS-RP, TS-EC880 Pro,
TS-EC1080 Pro, TS-EC880U-RP, TS-EC1280U-RP, TS-EC1680U-RP, TS-EC2480U-RP,
TVS-471, TVS-671, TVS-871, TVS-871U-RP, TVS-1271U-RP, TVS-463, TVS-663,
TVS-863, TVS-863+.
 For RAID groups that contain 16 hard drives, up to 512MB RAM will be used for them.
In case you need to connect 8 expansion enclosures to your NAS, please ensure that
the NAS has at least 8GB RAM.
Creating New Storage Pools
Follow these steps to create a new storage pool:
1. Go to "Storage Manager" > "STORAGE" > "Storage Space".
2. Click "Create" > "New Storage Pool".