Buffalo Tech TeraStation 5000, User Manual

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Chapter 4 Managing Your Storage .................................38
RAID Arrays .........................................................................................38
Working with RAID Arrays .................................................................39
Using JBOD ....................................................................................................40
Changing RAID Mode ...................................................................................40
Configuring a Hot Spare ...............................................................................41
RMM (RAID Mode Manager) .........................................................................42
RAID Scanning...............................................................................................44
Adding an External Hard Drive .........................................................45
Dismounting Drives ...........................................................................46
Checking Drives .................................................................................47
Formatting Drives ..............................................................................48
Encrypting Drives ...............................................................................50
Media Cartridges ................................................................................50
Erase Data on the TeraStation Completely .......................................50
Disk Quotas ........................................................................................52
Quotas for Users ............................................................................................52
Quotas for Groups ........................................................................................52
Size Limits ......................................................................................................53
Using the TeraStation as an iSCSI Device .........................................55
Introduction ..................................................................................................55
Using the iSCSI Connection Tool ..................................................................59
Creating and Expanding Volumes ...............................................................62
Disconnecting Volumes ................................................................................63
Setting Access Restrictions ..........................................................................64