Removing a Folder from Favorites....................................................................................................... 158
Compressing a Folder.......................................................................................................................... 159
Deleting a Folder.................................................................................................................................. 159
Creating a Shared Folder..................................................................................................................... 160
Creating a Snapshot Shared Folder.....................................................................................................162
Sharing Space with a New User...........................................................................................................164
Adding a Folder to the Transcoding Folder.......................................................................................... 164
Canceling or Deleting Transcoding...................................................................................................... 165
Locking or Unlocking an Encrypted Shared Folder.............................................................................. 166
Keeping a Folder or a File in Reserved Cache.....................................................................................166
Removing a Folder from Reserved Cache........................................................................................... 167
QTS Flexible Volume Architecture............................................................................................................169
Global Settings......................................................................................................................................... 170
Storage Global Settings........................................................................................................................170
Disk / Device Global Settings............................................................................................................... 171
Snapshot Global Settings.....................................................................................................................172
Disks.....................................................................................................................................................173
Volumes................................................................................................................................................179
Storage Pools.......................................................................................................................................195
RAID.....................................................................................................................................................202
Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs)..............................................................................................................211
Expansion Unit Actions.........................................................................................................................218
Expansion Unit Automatic Recovery.................................................................................................... 218
QNAP External RAID Devices..............................................................................................................219
QNAP JBOD Enclosures...................................................................................................................... 235
Qtier Benefits........................................................................................................................................236
Qtier Requirements.............................................................................................................................. 238
Qtier Creation....................................................................................................................................... 239
Qtier Management................................................................................................................................242
Tiering On Demand.............................................................................................................................. 246
Snapshot Storage Limitations...............................................................................................................246
Snapshot Creation................................................................................................................................247
Snapshot Management........................................................................................................................ 249
Snapshot Data Recovery......................................................................................................................251
Snapshot Clone....................................................................................................................................254
Snapshot Replica................................................................................................................................. 255
Cache Acceleration Requirements....................................................................................................... 266
Creating the SSD Cache...................................................................................................................... 267
Expanding the SSD Cache...................................................................................................................268
Configuring SSD Cache Settings......................................................................................................... 269
Cache Missing......................................................................................................................................270
Removing the SSD Cache....................................................................................................................270
External Storage Device Actions.......................................................................................................... 271
External Storage Disk Actions.............................................................................................................. 271
External Storage Partition Actions........................................................................................................272
Formatting an External Storage Partition............................................................................................. 272
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