Managing Synology Server; Managing Volume - Synology 406 Series User Manual

Managing Synology Server

You can start managing Synology Server in Web Management UI. Synology
Server Web Management UI provides distinctive and straight forward design for
easy management. You will find an online "Help" button on every page of the
Web Management UI. Click on the "Help" button for further information
whenever you encounter any problem.

Managing Volume

You can combine hard disks on Synology Server to create different types of
volumes, and find the data protection level of your need. The Synology Server
provides you various volume types as follows:
Volume
Type
Non-RAID 1
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 5
Managing Volume
You can create, remove, and repair volume. For the detailed description, please
refer to Help on "System > Volume" page.
Amount of Functionality
composed
hard disk
A Non-RAID volume must be created in one hard disk as
an independent unit. In creating a Non-RAID volume, you
can select only one hard disk at a time.
2~4 Combining multiple disks to build a volume, RAID 0 offers
Striping, a process of dividing data into blocks and
spreading the data blocks across several hard disks, but
without safety measures.
2 One of the composed disks is used for backup purposes;
the content of disk A is mirrored to disk B to assure data
integrity. Therefore the actual available storage capacity
equals to only the capacity of one hard disk.
3~4 This configuration includes a backup option. It uses parity
mode to store redundant data on space equal to the size of
one disk for later data recovery. Therefore the actual
available storage capacity equals to the capacity of n-1
hard disks.
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