Disk Utility - Verbatim Gigabit Ethernet Hard Drive User Manual

Disk Utility

Enter this screen by selecting Advanced / Maintenance / Disk Utility. You will be
presented with a table that lists the status of all detected storage devices. The first device
listed ("/dev/hda/") will be the main data partition of the NAS hard drive.
If you have another storage device attached to one of the USB-A ports, its status will be
displayed on the next row of the table.
From this table you have the option to perform the following actions on a specific storage
device using the buttons provided:
File System Format
The hard drive is preformatted at the factory as EXT2. If you want to change the format to
EXT3 or FAT32, make your selection from the pull-down menu, and press Format.
Caution: Formatting the drive will delete all data from your drive and will reset
all settings to factory default. Use extreme care to protect any previously
stored data before reformatting your drive.
Note that the FAT32 format does not support user disk quotas. Furthermore, with EXT2 or
EXT3, the drive provides these incremental benefits over FAT32:
• Faster data throughput
• Ability to allocate user storage quotas
• Disk encryption is supported
As mentioned previously, you can always use the passwords associated with your user
accounts as one way to safeguard your data from others. To provide an additional level
of data security you may optionally choose to enable encryption at the time you format
your hard drive. To enable data encryption (available for EXT2 or EXT3 only), check
the Encrypt box before you initiate formatting. Once the drive has been formatted with
encryption enabled, all future data saved on the drive will be encrypted using the 128-bit
loop AES algorithm. Please consider carefully before selecting this feature, because
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