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Aspire easyStore
Reformatting the hard drives or changing to a
different RAID level
Aspire easyStore is shipped with disks configured in RAID5 data protection. If you would
like to reformat the hard drives or change to different data protection levels (RAID levels),
please follow the steps in this section.
Before you proceed, please note that you will lost all your data stored on Aspire
easyStore during the process. Please be sure that you understand how different data
protection level works.
Data protection (RAID 5 — three disks minimum)
Aspire easyStore will combine all hard disks you put inside the system to one large
storage area. An amount of disk space equal to one disk is used for data protection, and
the rest is used for data storage. The data is distributed in such a way that it can be
recovered if any one disk fails.
Data duplication (RAID 1 — 2 or 4 disks only)
Aspire easyStore will combine all hard disks you put inside the system to one large
storage area. Half of the disk space is used for data storage, and the other half is used for
a duplicate (mirror) of that data. If one disk fails, you have a backup copy.
Better performance, no data protection (RAID 0 - two disks minimum)
Aspire easyStore will combine all hard disks you put inside the system as one large
storage area. All the disk space is used for data storage. Data stored on the Aspire
easyStore are distributed among all the hard disks. When you read or write data, you will
get better performance; however, if any disk fails, you will lose all data stored on Aspire
easyStore.
Expandable, no data protection (JBOD - one disk minimum)
Aspire easyStore will combine all hard disks you put inside the system as one large
storage area. All the disk space is used for data storage, and you can add more disks later
without affecting your existing data.
Non-expandable, no data protection (Standard - one disk minimum)
Each hard disk is a standalone storage area. You can not expand the storage area of each
disk even if you add more disks into the Aspire easyStore; however, if any disk fails, data
stored on other hard disks will not be affected.
1. Log in to the web UI.
2. Click Advanced -> System.
3. Click the HDD & RAID tab.
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