ZyXEL Communications NSA-2401 User Manual

Chapter 6 Storage Screens

NSA-2401 User’s Guide

Click Storage > Internal Storage  > Volume > Create to display the internal volume 
creation screen as shown next. You can also select an existing internal volume and click the 
Edit icon. Use this screen to add or edit internal storage volumes.

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Keep an encrypted volume’s password or USB key in a safe place. You cannot 
access a locked volume without the password or USB key. All of the volume’s 
data will be unusable. If you use a USB key, keep backup copies. Do not use 
the USB key for anything else (do not store data on it or format it).

Figure 131   Storage > Internal Storage  > Volume > Create

The following table describes this screen. 

Table 30   Storage > Internal Storage  > Volume Create 

RAID Label

Select the disk array upon which you want to create the volume. This 
option is only available when you create a volume.

Volume Name

Type a volume name from 1 to 31 characters. To avoid confusion, it is 
highly recommended that each volume use a unique name. 
Acceptable characters are all alphanumeric characters (A-Z 0-9) and " " 
[spaces], “-” [dashes], "_" [underscores], and "." [periods].
The first character must be alphanumeric.
The last character cannot be a space " ".

Size

Enter the number of megabytes to use for the volume. Click the screen to 
update the Available Capacity display. You can edit a volume later to 
make it larger (but not smaller). You may want to leave some capacity on 
the array un-allocated to volumes since the NSA uses that space to store 
snapshots. So the bigger the volumes are, the less space there is for 
snapshots. See 

 for more on snapshots.

Available Capacity

This field shows the total storage space available on the array and how 
much of it this volume will take up.