Format and configuration, Front and rear view – Western Digital WD ShareSpace User Manual
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Format and Configuration
WD ShareSpace is preformatted for maximum reliability as a RAID 5 volume (for four-drive systems)
or for maximum capacity as a single large, spanned volume (for two-drive systems). In RAID 5, one
quarter of the capacity is used to store parity information needed to restore data in the event of a drive
failure. In a spanned volume, the capacity is equal to the total of all drives in the volume. To access the
the maximum capacity using full four drives of this device, the RAID configuration must be reset to
either RAID 0 or Span. For more information on how to set up RAID, see the full user manual on the
software CD for more information on how to manage RAID on the network storage system.
Front and Rear View
1
Power button
5
Power port
2
LED indicators
6
Reset button
3
Auto-backup button
7
Ethernet port
4
USB port 1 (Auto-backup)
8
USB ports 2 and 3
9
Kensington security slot
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