Operation Manual
Table Of Contents
- Media Server
- User’s Guide
- Getting to Know Your NSA
- NAS Starter Utility
- zCloud
- Web Configurator Basics
- Tutorials
- 5.1 Overview
- 5.2 Windows 7 Network
- 5.3 Windows 7 Network Map
- 5.4 Playing Media Files in Windows 7
- 5.5 Windows 7 Devices and Printers
- 5.6 Creating a Volume in a 2-Bay NSA
- 5.7 Creating a Volume in a 1-Bay NSA
- 5.8 Deleting a Volume
- 5.9 File Sharing Tutorials
- 5.10 Download Service Tutorial
- 5.11 Broadcatching Tutorial
- 5.12 Printer Server Tutorial
- 5.13 Copy and Flickr Auto Upload Tutorial
- 5.14 FTP Uploadr Tutorial
- 5.15 Web Configurator’s Security Sessions
- 5.16 Using FTPES to Connect to the NSA
- 5.17 Using a Mac to Access the NSA
- 5.18 How to Use the BackupPlanner
- Technical Reference
- Status Screen
- System Setting
- Storage
- Network
- Applications
- 10.1 Overview
- 10.2 What You Can Do
- 10.3 What You Need to Know
- 10.4 FTP Server
- 10.5 The Media Server Screens
- 10.6 The iTunes Server Screen
- 10.7 The Download Service Screen
- 10.8 The Web Publishing Screen
- 10.9 The Broadcatching Screen
- 10.10 The Print Server Screen
- 10.11 The Copy/Sync Button Screen
- 10.12 Technical Reference
- 10.12.1 Sharing Media Files on Your Network
- 10.12.2 Download Service
- 10.12.3 Link Capture Browser Plugin
- 10.12.4 Download Service Notification
- 10.12.5 P2P Download Security
- 10.12.6 Web Publishing Example
- 10.12.7 Web Publishing
- 10.12.8 Channel Guides for Broadcatching
- 10.12.9 Printer Sharing
- 10.12.10 Copying Files
- 10.12.11 Synchronizing Files
- Packages
- 11.1 Overview
- 11.2 What You Can Do
- 11.3 SMART Screen
- 11.4 DyDNS Screen
- 11.5 NFS Screen
- 11.6 Syslog Server Screen
- 11.7 TFTP Server Screen
- 11.8 eMule Screens
- 11.9 pyLoad Screen
- 11.10 ownCloud Setup
- 11.11 Polkast Setup
- 11.12 GoogleDrive
- 11.13 Memopal
- 11.14 Protect Screens
- 11.15 Backup Screens
- 11.16 Restore Screen
- 11.17 Technical Reference
- Auto Upload
- Dropbox
- Using Time Machine with the NSA
- Users
- Groups
- Shares
- Maintenance Screens
- Protecting Your Data
- Troubleshooting
- 20.1 Troubleshooting Overview
- 20.2 Power, Hardware, Connections, and LEDs
- 20.3 NAS Starter Utility
- 20.4 NSA Login and Access
- 20.5 I Cannot Access The NSA
- 20.6 Users Cannot Access the NSA
- 20.7 External USB Drives
- 20.8 Firmware
- 20.9 File Transfer
- 20.10 Networking
- 20.11 Some Features’ Screens Do Not Display
- 20.12 Media Server Functions
- 20.13 Download Service and Broadcatching Functions
- 20.14 Web Publishing
- 20.15 Auto Upload
- 20.16 Package Management
- 20.17 Backups
- 20.18 Google Drive
- Customer Support
- Product Specifications
- Legal Information
- Index
Chapter 8 Storage
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8.5.1 External Disks
You may connect USB storage devices that support the following file systems to the NSA.
• Windows File Systems: NTFS, FAT32 and FAT16.
• Linux File Systems: ReiserFS, EXT2, EXT3, and XFS.
8.6 Storage Technical Reference
This section provides some background information about the topics covered in this chapter.
8.6.1 Volumes and RAID
A volume is a storage area on a disk or disks. You can create volumes on the internal disks and
external disks attached to the USB port(s). You can spread a volume across internal disks but not
between internal and external disks.
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) or JBOD is the storage method that the NSA uses.
The storage method you use depends on how many disks you have and how many volumes you
want to create. It’s important that you consider this carefully as all data is deleted when you re-
create a volume.
Note: Back up your data before deleting or re-creating a volume!
Below is a table that summarizes some attributes of the various RAID levels as supported on the
NSA. For capacity and storage efficiency, “S” is the size of the smallest drive in the array, and “N” is
the number of drives in the array.
Storage efficiency assumes all drives are of identical size.
File System Select the file system you want the new volume to use.
Windows file systems
NTFS: Recommended.
FAT32: Newer, and more efficient than FAT16. Supports a volume size of up to 2 TB
(Tera Bytes) and individual file sizes of up to 4 GB.
FAT16: Compatible with older Windows operating systems. Supports volume and file
sizes of up to 2 GB.
Linux file systems
EXT2: Older file system.
EXT3: The same as EXT2, but adds a journaled file system and is more robust.
EXT4: Supports larger files and better performance than EXT3.
ReiserFS: Offers better performance for small files.
XFS: Allows expansion for mounted volumes.
Apply Click this to save your changes and create the volume.
Cancel Click this to exit this screen without saving changes.
Table 26 Storage > Create an External Volume (continued)
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