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MANAGING STORAGE
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MY CLOUD USER MANUAL 
Managing Storage
About Storage
RAID Storage
Disk Status
Viewing S.M.A.R.T Data Information
Volume Virtualization
About Storage
The Storage page allows you to configure the storage within your device and view the status
and capacity of its disks. This chapter provides details on managing the storage on your My
Cloud device.
RAID Storage
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) allows you to store the same data in different
places on multiple hard drives, providing necessary redundancy, greater performance, and
data integrity. There are several different levels of RAID, each one providing a different
method of sharing or distributing data among the drives. Your My Cloud device allows you to
select from the following storage modes:
Note: The difference between a drive and a volume is that a volume can be a single
drive or multiple drives.
RAID Mode Description
JBOD
The use of one or more drives not in a RAID configuration but managed
as separate logical volumes.
Spanning Combination of drives in a linear fashion to create one large logical
volume.