Customizing Your Seagate ® Nas; Working With Volumes; Creating New Volumes - Seagate Business Storage 1-Bay NAS Administrator's Manual

Customizing Your Seagate® NAS
4. Customizing Your Seagate
This chapter covers advanced settings and configurations for your Seagate NAS. Click an
item in the following list to jump to the topic:
• "Working with Volumes" on page 19
• "Understanding RAID" on page 20
• "Setting up Your Seagate NAS as a Media Server" on page 21
• "Customizing Network Settings" on page 22
• "Adding Additional Security to Your Seagate NAS" on page 25
• "Configuring Power Consumption" on page 25
• "Enabling Virtualization (iSCSI)" on page 26

Working with Volumes

By default, the available storage space in your Seagate NAS is configured with one volume.
A volume is storage space that can be made up of one or more disk drives or part of a single
disk drive. You can create more volumes (and shared folders) on your Seagate NAS if you
want to divide the total storage space into smaller amounts that you can allocate for different
uses.
For example, you could create three volumes to hold different types of information:
• Volume A: Business Files
• Volume B: Backup File Storage
• Volume C: Media Files
You can use the same disk drives in multiple volumes providing there is available space on
those drives. For instance, you could use half the space on hard drives 1 and 2 to create
Volume A, and the other half of the space on the same hard drives to create Volume B.

Creating New Volumes

In the NAS Manager, go to Storage > Volumes / RAID. Click Add New Volume. Supply the
following information:
• Volume Name: Enter a name for the new volume.
• Volume Description: Enter a description for the new volume.
• Disk Selection: Select one or more hard disk drives for your volume.
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