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Volume Usage and Status
Chapter 5 Storage Management
This chapter describes how to create a single-disk volume or a
RAID volume. It also outlines the steps of deleting a volume,
expanding a RAID-5 volume and assigning hot-spare disks.
After a volume is created, please refer to the next chapter for
more information about sharing data and assigning
permissions.
5.1 Volume Usage and Status
A volume is a logical storage unit. Each volume holds a
complete file-system. A volume can exist on a single disk or a
RAID group consisting of two or more disks.
Volume View
List of Volumes
It displays all the volumes in the NAS system.
Volume Name
shows the volume name which is defined when creating a
volume. Each volume name is also a hyperlink. It opens a page
for showing the detailed information of that volume. Members
indicate the hard disks which compose the volume. RAID Type
indicates whether this volume is JBOD (a single hard disk), RAID
0, RAID 1 or RAID 5. Please refer to the next section for more
information about RAID.
Free Space indicates the volume usage by showing the free
storage space in the volume and the percentage. Total Space
indicates the volume size.
Status indicates the disk activity on the volume. The disk activity
may be one of the following:
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