User guide

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5
Disk Con
fi
guration – Page (Steps)
Here are the steps to confi gure all the hard drives (including an
attac
h
e
d
eSATA mirroring
d
is
k
) to run on RAID 6
.
S
te
p
1: Select the desired RAID con
fi
g
uration. In the exam
p
le we
c
h
ose RAID 6
.
S
tep
2
:
S
elect the desired
fi
le system
f
ormat. In the example we chose
ext
2
.
Ste
p
3: Deci
d
e w
h
et
h
er
y
ou want to attac
h
an externa
l
eSATA
d
rive
for dedicated use in savin
g
a full du
p
licate of the data stored on
y
our
PowerBa
y
NAS arra
y
. If
y
ou choose to use this eSATA Disk Mirror
feature, check the Mirror o
p
tion button located below the eSATA Disk
icon in this dialo
g
ue. When the mirror feature is enabled, the eSATA
Disk icon will have a blue frame around it. The e
S
ATA Disk Mirror
option is not available for the two RAID modes using a spare.
C
lick
O
K
.
S
tep 4: You will be warned that doing this confi guration will erase all
the data from your hard drives. Click OK (if you want to proceed).
S
tep 5: The RAID con
fi
guration will start. Please wait
f
or it to complete
f
ull
y
before
p
roceedin
g
.
T
he new RAID settings will now show on the Hard Disk Confi guration
page, including the change o
f
the eSATA Disk’s status to “Synchronized”.
If you select “Unmirror” but leave the external eSATA drive powered
on and connected, the Status will change from “Synchronized” to
“Connected”. To restore all data
f
rom the external eSATA drive to the
NAS, hit the “Restore” button. The external eSATA drive capacity must
be at least as large as the currently confi gured NAS RAID array.
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Uti
l
ities - Pag
e
S
.M.A.R.T. Test
:
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitorin
g
, Anal
y
sis, and Re
p
ortin
g
Technolo
gy
) is
a monitoring service that can diagnose the health status o
f
a disk by
analyzing certain disk attributes. The test result
f
or each disk is shown
at t
h
e ri
gh
t.
S
can Disk: Press the Scan Disk button to initiate a scan o
f
all disks and
attempt to detect and to list any errors
f
ound. This process can take a
lon
g
time to com
p
lete.
R
efo
rmat: I
f
you want to re
f
ormat the array, using the currently selected
RAID mode,
y
ou ma
y
p
ress the Reformat button. You will be warned
that re
f
ormattin
g
will erase all the data
f
rom
y
our hard drives. Click OK
(i
f
y
ou want to
p
roceed)
.