Viewing An External Usb Drive Or Memory Stick; Formatting An External Usb Drive Or Memory Stick - Edge10 EDGESTORE NAS400 User Manual

Viewing an External USB Drive or Memory Stick

To view a USB drive or memory stick attached to the EdgeStore:
1. In the Tree, click the + beside the RAID & File System icon.
2. Click the RAID Management icon.
The USB drive or memory stick appears as a USB External Disk
3. Click the File System Management icon.
The USB drive or memory stick appears as a Volume called USBDISK.
You do NOT create a RAID Volume or folders with the USB drive or memory stick
as you would with the disk drives installed in the EdgeStore enclosure.
With the USB drive or memory stick connected to the EdgeStore, create a
network drive on your PC and choose the USB disk as the folder. Then you can
access the USB drive or memory stick from your PC.
See "Chapter 3: Connecting to the EdgeStore" on page 21 for more information.

Formatting an External USB Drive or Memory Stick

This option only appears when EdgeStore does not recognize the file system on
the USB drive or memory stick.
To format a USB drive or memory stick:
1. Attach the USB drive or memory stick to one of the USB ports on the back of
the EdgeStore.
2. In the Tree, click the + beside the RAID & File System icon.
3. Click the File System Management icon.
4. On the File System Status tab, highlight the USB drive.
5. From the Format File System Type dropdown menu, choose a file system:
• FAT 32 – Use for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh PCs, and EdgeStore
• Ext3 – Use for UNIX and Linux PCs, and EdgeStore
6. Click the Format USB Disk button.
7. In the confirmation box, type yes, then click the OK button.
Formatting requires several minutes, depending on the size of your USB drive or
memory stick.
When you format a USB drive or memory stick, you delete all the
data saved on it. Back up any important data before you format.
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