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Chapter 8 External Volume
Cloud Storage User’s Guide
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
8.3.1 External Disks
You may use SD cards or USB storage devices that support the following file systems to the NAS.
• Windows File Systems: NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT.
• Linux File Systems: EXT2, EXT3, and EXT4.
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Storage > Create an External Volume
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Volume Name Type a volume name from 1 to 31 characters. The name cannot be the same as another
existing external volume.
Acceptable characters are all alphanumeric characters and " " [spaces], "_" [underscores],
and "." [periods].
The first character must be alphanumeric (A-Z 0-9).
The last character cannot be a space " ".
Available Disk(s) Select the external (USB or SD card) device upon which you want to create the volume.
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.
exFAT: Designed to bridge the gap between the NTFS file system and the older FAT32
file system. It is a 64-bit file system that can store files over 4 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.
Apply Click this to save your changes and create the volume.
Cancel Click this to exit this screen without saving changes.