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Volumes
A volume is formatted by the file system to store share folders and files. Users can manage, monitor,
create, or delete a logical volume on this page. The following topics are covered in this chapter:
 Creating New Volumes
 Removing Volumes
 Expanding Volumes
 Available Volume operations
 Configuring Alert Threshold
 Creating New Shared Folders
 Snapshot
 Encryption
 Setting Space Reclamation and SSD Trim
Creating New Volumes
1. Go to "Storage Manager" > "STORAGE" > "Storage Space".
2. Click "Create" > "New Volume" to launch the volume creation wizard.
3. Configure the mode for the volume from static single, thick multiple, and thin multiple
according to your needs (learn more about "Thick or Thin Volumes" in the following
section) and click "Next".
4. Select the enclosure unit, hard disk drive(s), RAID type and hot spare disk for the
volume to be created and click "Next".
5. Set the alert threshold and volume alias. You can also click "File system option" to
specify bytes per inode, enable volume encryption and share folder creation. And click
"Next".
6. Confirm your settings and click "Finish".
7. Please note that all data on the selected hard drive(s) will be erased. Click "OK" if you
are certain about this.
8. The new volume will be created.
Note: The hot spare disk feature is only available for RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 and RAID
10. For other RAID types, the hot spare disk field will be grayed out.
Follow these steps to create a new, thick or thin volume:
1. Select "Thick Multiple Volume" or "Thin Multiple Volume". Select to create a new storage
pool or from an existing storage pool and click "Next".