User manual

MANAGING STORAGE ON WD MY CLOUD

WD MY CLOUD USER MANUAL 

6. Select the Storage option you’d like to use, then select the Switch to <Storage

Mode> check box and click Next. A drive self-test is performed.

7. Once the test is complete, review the status of your hard drives and click Next.

8. Review the status of your volumes and click Next.

9. If the Volume slider displays, select the amount of space you’d like to dedicate to the

selected RAID mode.

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If you choose not to use the entire volume for your RAID selection, you can

configure the remaining disk space as Spanning by selecting the Configure the

remaining disk space as Spanning check box.

10. For RAID 5, you can Configure RAID 5+spare, which allows "Disk4" to become the hot

spare. Select the Create Spare Disk check box to configure RAID 5+Spare. Deselect

Create Spare Disk, if you do not want to create a RAID 5+spare.

11. Click Next to continue.

12. If you’d like to automatically rebuild the RAID once the disk is recognized, click the

toggle button to ON, then click Next.

13. If you’d like to encrypt a volume, click the Secure Volume icon, then click Next.

14. Review the summary of your selections and click Next.

15. Review the warning screen and click Finish. The requested hard drive changes begin.

Do not turn off your WD My Cloud device while these changes are in progress.

16. When the process is complete, click Finish again.

RAID 0 Data is striped across multiple hard drives, enabling

accelerated reading and recording of data by combining the

work of two or more drives to increase performance.

However, If one drive fails, all of your data will be lost.

RAID 1 (default) Two instantaneous copies of the data are recorded on

separate hard drives so if one of them fails, other(s) continue

to read/write data until the faulty hard drive is replaced.

RAID 5 Offers superior performance and protection by striping data

across 3 or more drives and dedicating a quarter of each

drive to fault tolerance. If one of the drives fails, the other(s)

continue to read/write data until the faulty hard drive is

replaced.

This option is only available on 4-bay My Cloud

devices.

RAID 10 RAID protocol in which data is written in stripes across

primary disks that have been mirrored to the secondary

disks. If one of the drives fails, the other(s) continue to read/

write data until the faulty hard drive is replaced.

This option is only available on 4-bay My Cloud

devices.