User Manual

MANAGING STORAGE
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MY CLOUD USER MANUAL 
Viewing the Current RAID Mode
Use the following steps to view the RAID mode currently used on your device.
1. On the Navigation bar, click Storage to
display the Storage screen.
2. Click RAID, if not alrea
dy selected.
3. In the RAID Profile and RAID Volume areas, the following information displays:

RAID Health.

Auto-Rebuild status (whether or not Auto Rebuild is turned on).
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RAID Volume which shows the number of volumes for which RAID or JBOD are
configured.
Changing the RAID Mode
Use the following steps to change the current RAID mode on your My Cloud device.
WARNING! Changes made to your RAID mode will delete all of your data
and your user settings. See “Saving a Configuration File” on
page 88 for information on saving your user settings.
1. On the Navigation bar, click Storage to
display the Storage screen.
2. Click RAID, if not alrea
dy selected.
3. Click Change RAID Mode at the bottom of the screen.
4. Review the warning message and click OK.
5. Select the RAID mode you’d like to use for your My Cloud device.
Options include:
RAID 0 RAID 0 mode provides disk striping across all drives in the RAID drive
group. 
RAID 0 does not provide data redundancy but does provide the best
performance of any RAID level. RAID 0 breaks up data into smaller
segments and stripes the data segments across each drive in the drive.
RAID 1 In RAID 1 mode, the RAID controller duplicates all data from one drive to a
second drive in the drive group. RAID 1 provides complete data
redundancy, but cuts the required storage capacity in half.
RAID 5 RAID 5 mode offers superior performance and protection by striping data
ac
ross 3 or more drives and dedicating a quarter of each drive to fault
tolerance.
This option is only available for 4-bay My Cloud devices.
RAID 10 RAID 10 mode is a RAID protocol in which data is written in stripes across
primary disks that have been mirrored to the secondary disks.
This option is only available for 4-bay My Cloud devices.
JBOD The use of one or more drives not in a RAID configuration but
m
anaged as separate logical volumes.
Spanning Combination of drives in a linear fashion to create one large
logical vol
ume.
RAID Mode Description