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•  To stop a RAID scan, click Abort RAID Scan.

Your LinkStation includes a USB port. You can connect an external drive to this port. It will appear as a shared folder on 
the LinkStation. Formatted drives are detected automatically. Unformatted drives should be formatted in Settings.
After a USB drive is recognized, Windows adds “usbdisk X” under the LinkStation in “Network”, where “X” is the USB port 
where the hard drive is connected.

Notes: 
•  Hubs are not supported. Connect a single USB drive to the USB port.
•  Backup data from Mac OS may include characters that cannot  be written to FAT16 or FAT32 drives such as “.DS_

Store”. For best results, reformat the drive before using it as a backup target.

•  You can use the USB Device Server to connect a USB hub and up to 15 USB devices. However, with USB Device 

Server, the USB devices cannot be used for creating shared folders or act as LinkStation backup destinations.

Formatted drives are detected automatically. If a drive is not formatted, format it from Settings. Refer to “Formatting 
Drives” for the procedure.

Notes: 
•  Do not turn off or disconnect power to the LinkStation while formatting a hard drive.
•  A format may take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours depending on the size of your drives.
•  The following format types are supported: FAT32 (recommended for connecting to computers), EXT3 (recom-

mended for sharing with other LinkStations), XFS (recommended for adding additional external storage to a 
LinkStation), NTFS, and HFS+ (read-only, cannot format from Settings).

You can set access restrictions on new drives. Refer to “Configuring Access Restrictions” for details.

Note: Even if a shared folder is not visible, you can still format the drive, run a disk check, and back up the new drive.

The following devices are supported by the LinkStation