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...hard disks. Note: Turn off and disconnect the NAS before you hear a second beep (after about five seconds), then release it . • To perform a hardware shutdown and have the NAS go through its normal software shutdown process and turn itself off . • Press the power button for one to... internal hard disk or disks. 1.1.1 Hard Disks The NAS has four internal hard disk bays. Chapter 1 Getting to configure the copy/sync settings. 16 NAS540 User's Guide Figure 2 Using the Power Button to Turn Off the NAS Press 1 Beep 2 Beeps 3 seconds 2 more details on how to Know ...
...hard disks. Note: Turn off and disconnect the NAS before you hear a second beep (after about five seconds), then release it . • To perform a hardware shutdown and have the NAS go through its normal software shutdown process and turn itself off . • Press the power button for one to... internal hard disk or disks. 1.1.1 Hard Disks The NAS has four internal hard disk bays. Chapter 1 Getting to configure the copy/sync settings. 16 NAS540 User's Guide Figure 2 Using the Power Button to Turn Off the NAS Press 1 Beep 2 Beeps 3 seconds 2 more details on how to Know ...
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...is a basic storage space on the circle represents the volume's percentage of the NAS. To store data on Disk Group Provides better performance. Allows you cannot recover the volume. Table 5 Storage Overview LABEL Storage DESCRIPTION The circular icon displays the overall health state of used...You can also expand a disk group by adding hard disks. 4.4.1 Storage Volume A volume is currently used capacity in a healthy state. NAS540 User's Guide 35 This section also displays the volume's used capacity, and total capacity available. You can expand a volume's size after creation...
...is a basic storage space on the circle represents the volume's percentage of the NAS. To store data on Disk Group Provides better performance. Allows you cannot recover the volume. Table 5 Storage Overview LABEL Storage DESCRIPTION The circular icon displays the overall health state of used...You can also expand a disk group by adding hard disks. 4.4.1 Storage Volume A volume is currently used capacity in a healthy state. NAS540 User's Guide 35 This section also displays the volume's used capacity, and total capacity available. You can expand a volume's size after creation...
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... with a hot spare or a RAID 5 with a hot spare fails, the NAS automatically uses the hot spare to get better performance than RAID 6, with two or four disks for maximum capacity. of HDD - 1) x (smallest HDD size) (No. You ...FAIL 0 JBOD 2-4 0 RAID 0 2-4 RAID 1 2-4 0 (No. Use this with high performance. Replace the failed disk and use the Storage screen's Repair link to another disk(s) with two ... three or four disks to a second disk. of data on one disk to balance performance and hard disk capacity usage with one disk. Later you can change the following RAID ...
... with a hot spare or a RAID 5 with a hot spare fails, the NAS automatically uses the hot spare to get better performance than RAID 6, with two or four disks for maximum capacity. of HDD - 1) x (smallest HDD size) (No. You ...FAIL 0 JBOD 2-4 0 RAID 0 2-4 RAID 1 2-4 0 (No. Use this with high performance. Replace the failed disk and use the Storage screen's Repair link to another disk(s) with two ... three or four disks to a second disk. of data on one disk to balance performance and hard disk capacity usage with one disk. Later you can change the following RAID ...
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...the volume. This field shows what file system the volume uses. Click the column's heading cell to open the screen as shown. 40 NAS540 User's Guide At the time of resynchronizing the NAS has finished and the evaluated remaining time. For a RAID 1 volume, this also...total disk group size. 4.4.1.1 Creating a Volume Use the Create Volume screen to configure a volume directly on a disk/RAID, which has better performance Click Create in the Volume section of resynchronizing the NAS has finished and the evaluated remaining time. Expanding: The NAS's percentage progress in creating...
...the volume. This field shows what file system the volume uses. Click the column's heading cell to open the screen as shown. 40 NAS540 User's Guide At the time of resynchronizing the NAS has finished and the evaluated remaining time. For a RAID 1 volume, this also...total disk group size. 4.4.1.1 Creating a Volume Use the Create Volume screen to configure a volume directly on a disk/RAID, which has better performance Click Create in the Volume section of resynchronizing the NAS has finished and the evaluated remaining time. Expanding: The NAS's percentage progress in creating...
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... for more data protection in case of RAID on RAID (no disk group). Cancel Click Cancel to open the screen as shown. 42 NAS540 User's Guide RAID Type This field displays the type of disk failure. Back Click Back to go to another disk(s) with two or ...Volume Name This field displays the name of the volume. Cancel Click Cancel to close the screen without saving any settings. Use JBOD with high performance. Step 2. Disk Selected This field displays the hard disks you configured in the Volume section to close the screen without saving any settings. 4.4.1.2 ...
... for more data protection in case of RAID on RAID (no disk group). Cancel Click Cancel to open the screen as shown. 42 NAS540 User's Guide RAID Type This field displays the type of disk failure. Back Click Back to go to another disk(s) with two or ...Volume Name This field displays the name of the volume. Cancel Click Cancel to close the screen without saving any settings. Use JBOD with high performance. Step 2. Disk Selected This field displays the hard disks you configured in the Volume section to close the screen without saving any settings. 4.4.1.2 ...
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...four disks for changing the volume's RAID type. Use RAID 6 with three or more information. Next Click Next to go to the previous step. NAS540 User's Guide 49 The following describes labels on page 67 for RAID to close the screen without saving any settings. Choose a RAID Select a ...Disk Info Status This field displays the status of a hard disk. Select disk(s) This section lists all entries in this screen to balance performance, hard disk capacity usage with two or four disks to mirror primary data to save the settings. Disk Name This field shows the name ...
...four disks for changing the volume's RAID type. Use RAID 6 with three or more information. Next Click Next to go to the previous step. NAS540 User's Guide 49 The following describes labels on page 67 for RAID to close the screen without saving any settings. Choose a RAID Select a ...Disk Info Status This field displays the status of a hard disk. Select disk(s) This section lists all entries in this screen to balance performance, hard disk capacity usage with two or four disks to mirror primary data to save the settings. Disk Name This field shows the name ...
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Chapter 4 Web Configurator Basics Note: It is important to create a volume directly on a disk instead of on page 40 for more information. See Section 4.4.1.1 on a disk group if high performance is suggested to you. Figure 30 Create Volume on an Existing Disk Group NAS540 User's Guide 51
Chapter 4 Web Configurator Basics Note: It is important to create a volume directly on a disk instead of on page 40 for more information. See Section 4.4.1.1 on a disk group if high performance is suggested to you. Figure 30 Create Volume on an Existing Disk Group NAS540 User's Guide 51
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... settings. Volume Capacity This field displays the size of the disk group. Use Basic with high performance. Click Back to go to close the screen without saving any settings. 54 NAS540 User's Guide Use RAID 5 with three or more information. Apply Click Apply to balance... performance, hard disk capacity usage with data protection in used, and total size of the volume. Click Cancel ...
... settings. Volume Capacity This field displays the size of the disk group. Use Basic with high performance. Click Back to go to close the screen without saving any settings. 54 NAS540 User's Guide Use RAID 5 with three or more information. Apply Click Apply to balance... performance, hard disk capacity usage with data protection in used, and total size of the volume. Click Cancel ...
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...data protection. Summary Click Back to go to avoid wasting space. Click Cancel to get better performance than RAID 6, with four disks to close the screen without saving any settings. 60 NAS540 User's Guide Use this screen to another disk(s) with two or more information. RAID Type This...the volume, Multiple volumes on which the volume will be built. Back Click Back to go to save the settings. Use RAID 1 with high performance. See Table 7 on page 36 or Section 4.4.7 on which the RAID array will be built. Cancel Click Cancel to the next step. ...
...data protection. Summary Click Back to go to avoid wasting space. Click Cancel to get better performance than RAID 6, with four disks to close the screen without saving any settings. 60 NAS540 User's Guide Use this screen to another disk(s) with two or more information. RAID Type This...the volume, Multiple volumes on which the volume will be built. Back Click Back to go to save the settings. Use RAID 1 with high performance. See Table 7 on page 36 or Section 4.4.7 on which the RAID array will be built. Cancel Click Cancel to the next step. ...
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... temperature of the hard disk based on state since it was ours produced. 62 NAS540 User's Guide B This shows the overall health of the hard disk in degrees celsius (oC) and fahrenheit (oF). Performance This shows your hard disk's performance (Good or Bad). Figure 36 S.M.A.R.T Overview B A C The following table describes the labels in...
... temperature of the hard disk based on state since it was ours produced. 62 NAS540 User's Guide B This shows the overall health of the hard disk in degrees celsius (oC) and fahrenheit (oF). Performance This shows your hard disk's performance (Good or Bad). Figure 36 S.M.A.R.T Overview B A C The following table describes the labels in...
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... is less than or equal to an attribute of the Pre-fail type does not mean or normal value. This refers to the threshold. 64 NAS540 User's Guide It only means this if the current normalized value of the hard disk. Attribute Value This is the attribute's threshold value. An attribute... 100 or 200 usually represent the mean your hard drive is less than or equal to the threshold. Attributes describe the hard disk's physical state, performance, wear-and-tear, and so on the storage vendor which attributes it depends on .
... is less than or equal to an attribute of the Pre-fail type does not mean or normal value. This refers to the threshold. 64 NAS540 User's Guide It only means this if the current normalized value of the hard disk. Attribute Value This is the attribute's threshold value. An attribute... 100 or 200 usually represent the mean your hard drive is less than or equal to the threshold. Attributes describe the hard disk's physical state, performance, wear-and-tear, and so on the storage vendor which attributes it depends on .
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... value is the attribute's unprocessed raw data. Click this value to decrease. If a higher or lower raw attribute value is an average performance indicator for details about whether a higher or lower individual raw S.M.A.R.T. The more sectors the hard drive has to reallocate, the slower read ...) area. Raw Data Close • -: This displays if the attribute is not failing now and has never failed in seek errors. NAS540 User's Guide 65 attributes and their definitions vary by manufacturer, refer to the hard drive manufacturer for the seek operations of the magnetic heads...
... value is the attribute's unprocessed raw data. Click this value to decrease. If a higher or lower raw attribute value is an average performance indicator for details about whether a higher or lower individual raw S.M.A.R.T. The more sectors the hard drive has to reallocate, the slower read ...) area. Raw Data Close • -: This displays if the attribute is not failing now and has never failed in seek errors. NAS540 User's Guide 65 attributes and their definitions vary by manufacturer, refer to the hard drive manufacturer for the seek operations of the magnetic heads...
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...-on state. If the sector is later successfully written or read, this is the number of ECC (Error Correction Code) errors. 66 NAS540 User's Guide This could also be difficult to test since only direct I/O writes to the disk cause reallocations, not cached writes. 198 ...Chapter 4 Web Configurator Basics Table 20 S.M.A.R.T. Manufacturers can be a different, manufacturer-specific attribute. 203 Run Out Cancel Low This is not performed. Only failed write attempts cause a reallocation, not read errors the hard drive has reported. the temperature in this value is an indicator ...
...-on state. If the sector is later successfully written or read, this is the number of ECC (Error Correction Code) errors. 66 NAS540 User's Guide This could also be difficult to test since only direct I/O writes to the disk cause reallocations, not cached writes. 198 ...Chapter 4 Web Configurator Basics Table 20 S.M.A.R.T. Manufacturers can be a different, manufacturer-specific attribute. 203 Run Out Cancel Low This is not performed. Only failed write attempts cause a reallocation, not read errors the hard drive has reported. the temperature in this value is an indicator ...
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...software ECC (Error Correction Code). 205 Thermal Asperity Low Rate (TAR) This is the hard drive's seek performance during operation. 225 Load/Unload Low Cycle Count This is the total number of load cycles. 226 Load ...do. JBOD • Minimum number of thermal asperity errors. Chapter 4 Web Configurator Basics Table 20 S.M.A.R.T. Seek performance is how quickly the drive moves from track to track. 220 Disk Shift Low This is how far the... has it . This causes an audible vibration. 209 Offline Seek Performance This is the number of disks: 1 NAS540 User's Guide 67
...software ECC (Error Correction Code). 205 Thermal Asperity Low Rate (TAR) This is the hard drive's seek performance during operation. 225 Load/Unload Low Cycle Count This is the total number of load cycles. 226 Load ...do. JBOD • Minimum number of thermal asperity errors. Chapter 4 Web Configurator Basics Table 20 S.M.A.R.T. Seek performance is how quickly the drive moves from track to track. 220 Disk Shift Low This is how far the... has it . This causes an audible vibration. 209 Offline Seek Performance This is the number of disks: 1 NAS540 User's Guide 67
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...single large disk. Table 22 RAID 0 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 DISK 1 DISK 2 RAID 0 capacity is performance. You can add disks to each disk until it's full. The following figure shows two disks in a single JBOD array. ... B3 C3 A4 B4 C4 DISK 1 DISK 2 DISK 3 RAID 0 RAID 0 spreads data across disks simultaneously for faster performance. The major benefit of RAID 0 is the size of the sum of the capacities of mixed sizes. Flexibility (you may... storage capacity, especially for disks of the disks in the whole array depending on . 68 NAS540 User's Guide
...single large disk. Table 22 RAID 0 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 DISK 1 DISK 2 RAID 0 capacity is performance. You can add disks to each disk until it's full. The following figure shows two disks in a single JBOD array. ... B3 C3 A4 B4 C4 DISK 1 DISK 2 DISK 3 RAID 0 RAID 0 spreads data across disks simultaneously for faster performance. The major benefit of RAID 0 is the size of the sum of the capacities of mixed sizes. Flexibility (you may... storage capacity, especially for disks of the disks in the whole array depending on . 68 NAS540 User's Guide
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...a copy of the data. Typical applications for RAID 1 are those requiring high fault tolerance without need of large amounts of storage capacity or top performance, for the NAS). Chapter 4 Web Configurator Basics RAID 1 RAID 1 creates an exact copy (or mirror) of a set of data on space... uses parity to store redundant data on another disk. Therefore, on striped data across two disks, so if one RAID 6 array, then the maximum NAS540 User's Guide 69 RAID 6 RAID 6 can tolerate two simultaneous drive failures by calculating dual distributed parity data on a RAID 6 array, only 50%...
...a copy of the data. Typical applications for RAID 1 are those requiring high fault tolerance without need of large amounts of storage capacity or top performance, for the NAS). Chapter 4 Web Configurator Basics RAID 1 RAID 1 creates an exact copy (or mirror) of a set of data on space... uses parity to store redundant data on another disk. Therefore, on striped data across two disks, so if one RAID 6 array, then the maximum NAS540 User's Guide 69 RAID 6 RAID 6 can tolerate two simultaneous drive failures by calculating dual distributed parity data on a RAID 6 array, only 50%...
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.... Re-synchronize the array to have it return to its original state. RAID 1 provides redundancy while RAID 0 boosts performance. In case of capacity and performance while providing data redundancy. The 70 NAS540 User's Guide Table 24 RAID 6 RAID 6 A1 A2 AP AQ B1 BP BQ B2 CP CQ C1 C2 DQ... D1 D2 DP DISK 1 DISK 2 DISK 3 DISK 4 RAID 10 RAID 10 (RAID 1+0) is a nested RAID where two RAID 1 arrays are those requiring higher performance. It may ...
.... Re-synchronize the array to have it return to its original state. RAID 1 provides redundancy while RAID 0 boosts performance. In case of capacity and performance while providing data redundancy. The 70 NAS540 User's Guide Table 24 RAID 6 RAID 6 A1 A2 AP AQ B1 BP BQ B2 CP CQ C1 C2 DQ... D1 D2 DP DISK 1 DISK 2 DISK 3 DISK 4 RAID 10 RAID 10 (RAID 1+0) is a nested RAID where two RAID 1 arrays are those requiring higher performance. It may ...
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... applications for example) with parity information (AP) on standby. Hot-spare A RAID 1 or RAID 5 array with a hot-spare operates as the performance of RAID 5 will still be available (but at degraded speeds until you replace the hard disk that if a disk fails, then the array resynchronizes automatically...spare is the smallest disk in the RAID set . The advantage of a RAID 5 array is that failed and re-synchronize the array). NAS540 User's Guide 71 Chapter 4 Web Configurator Basics following example shows data stripped across three disks (A1 to A3 in the first strip for RAID...
... applications for example) with parity information (AP) on standby. Hot-spare A RAID 1 or RAID 5 array with a hot-spare operates as the performance of RAID 5 will still be available (but at degraded speeds until you replace the hard disk that if a disk fails, then the array resynchronizes automatically...spare is the smallest disk in the RAID set . The advantage of a RAID 5 array is that failed and re-synchronize the array). NAS540 User's Guide 71 Chapter 4 Web Configurator Basics following example shows data stripped across three disks (A1 to A3 in the first strip for RAID...
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Then click Add User. 100 NAS540 User's Guide This chapter assumes you have a working volume). This is how he would do it. 1 Go to the advanced administration screens. 2 Click Sharing > Users to perform initial setup and configuration (so you change the name of the shortcut. • Troubleshoot opens Windows' device troubleshooting wizard. •...
Then click Add User. 100 NAS540 User's Guide This chapter assumes you have a working volume). This is how he would do it. 1 Go to the advanced administration screens. 2 Click Sharing > Users to perform initial setup and configuration (so you change the name of the shortcut. • Troubleshoot opens Windows' device troubleshooting wizard. •...
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... other NAS's Backups share can be used directly by anyone with access to occur every morning at 3:00 and click Done. Do the following: 150 NAS540 User's Guide Figure 59 Protect > Backup > Add Job: Step 3 5 Schedule the backup to that share. 5.15.3 Restoring Archived Files by Backup Job If you have... backup jobs for which the NAS has already performed backups, you can restore the files based on the backup job. Figure 60 Protect > Backup > Add Job: Step 4 You do not need to use a special...
... other NAS's Backups share can be used directly by anyone with access to occur every morning at 3:00 and click Done. Do the following: 150 NAS540 User's Guide Figure 59 Protect > Backup > Add Job: Step 3 5 Schedule the backup to that share. 5.15.3 Restoring Archived Files by Backup Job If you have... backup jobs for which the NAS has already performed backups, you can restore the files based on the backup job. Figure 60 Protect > Backup > Add Job: Step 4 You do not need to use a special...