Shares
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ReadyNAS for Home RAIDiator 5.3
Basic Share Concepts
The volume or volumes on your ReadyNAS storage system are divided into shares, which
are similar to folders or directories.
Data Organization
Shares are the way that you group your data. You might want to group your data by type, for
example:
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Photos
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Music
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Videos
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Documents
Another option is to group your data by user:
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Tom
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Rick
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Mary
Organizations might choose to group data by department:
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Accounting
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Sales
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Personnel
You can combine these schemes or come up with your own scheme.
Your ReadyNAS storage system comes with two shares already created:
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Backup
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Media
If you want, you can delete or rename these shares. You can create other shares to organize
your data.
File and Folder Names
A share can contain folders to help you organize your data and files that contain your data.
Ensure that the files stored on your ReadyNAS system use file and folder names with no
more than 255 characters if all characters in the file or folder name are alphanumeric. If you
use other kinds of characters, the maximum length might be reduced. For example, if a file or
folder name uses Kanji or Hanzi characters, the maximum file name length might be 83
characters.
