![]() ![]() Do note that this process can take a long time.įigure 13: Verification and Parity Consistency Check These messages are highlighted in red within Figure 13, below. Once the volume is created, the NAS starts verifying your drives and runs a Parity Consistency Check. Next, the Synology DS920+ NAS will start creating your new volume, as shown in Figure 12, below. Since we want to go ahead, we clicked the Apply button. At this point in time, you can press the Back button to go to any of the previous screens and make changes, or even press the Cancel button if you do not want to create a volume or a storage pool. Carefully, make a note of all the choices you made. If you are tired of navigating through all these screens, then you’ll be happy to see the Confirm settings window, as shown in Figure 11, below. Yes, you need to press the Next button again. Unless you have a compelling reason to choose ext4, it’s best to go along with the default option, Btrfs as we did. You are now asked to select a file system from two options: Btrfs or ext4, as shown in Figure 10, below. That’s academic for us since these are new drives, but it’s great that you receive a warning. The Synology DS920+ NAS device now warns you that existing data on the newly added drives will be erased (see Figure 9). We selected both the HDDs shown here (see Figure 8), and clicked the Next button. ![]() Then, click the Next button.įigure 7: Configure storage pool property In the subsequent Configure storage pool property window (see Figure 7), you can provide an optional storage pool description. We selected the Quick option because we want to use the proprietary Synology Hybrid Raid (SHR ) option. ![]() You’ll notice that no volumes exist, so the next logical step is to click the Create button, as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 5.įigure 5: Volume tab in the Storage Managerĭoing so opens the Volume Creation Wizard window shown in Figure 6, below. You visit the Volume tab, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 5, below. To create a storage pool, you need to create a volume, which also ends up creating your storage pool. If you have some SSDs attached, they will also be visible, as shown highlighted in green within Figure 4. Do note that we have two HDDs available, which reiterates what we saw in Figure 3, but this tab shows more details such as the make, model number, and capacity of these drives, as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 4. To see more details about the drives connected to your Synology NAS, you can click the HDD/SSD tab highlighted in red within Figure 4, below. Of course, in your case, you may have a different number of unused drives or empty slots. Also, two empty slots are available to add more drives, as shown highlighted in green within Figure 3. You will also notice that two unused drives are available to be used in the storage pool, as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 3, above. Do note that it clearly specifies that no storage pool exists, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 3. In the ensuing screen, you click the Storage Manager option, highlighted in red within Figure 2, below.ĭoing so brings up the Storage Manager window that you can see in Figure 3, below. Once you log into the Synology DS920+, you’ll access the Main Menu button on the top-left of your screen, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 1, below.įigure 1: Main Menu on the Synology DS920+ Also, do note that in our case, this is a new Synology DS920+ NAS device, and no storage pool has been set up until now. However, if you have just one account set up, that’s typically already an administrator account. This is important if you have multiple accounts set up on the NAS. You must make sure that you are signing in as the administrator of the NAS device. ![]()
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