Western Digital My Cloud EX2 User Manual - Manual (Page 93)

MANAGING STORAGE ON WD MY CLOUD EX2
88 WD MY CLOUD EX4 PERSONAL CLOUD STORAGE
USER MANUAL
Viewing Hard Drive Information
Use the following steps to view status of the disks on your WD My Cloud EX2 device.
1. On the Storage page, click Disk Status, if not already selected.
2. Select Drive <drive #> next to the disk for which you’d like to view information.
3. Review the hard drive information, and then click Close.
The Hard Drive Information screen displays the following data:
Vendor The vendor from whom the hard drive was obtained.
Model The model number of the hard drive selected.
Serial Number The serial number of the hard drive selected.
Capacity The capacity of the hard drive selected.
Firmware Version The current firmware version used on the drive selected.
iSCSI Storage
Internet SCSI (iSCSI) is an industry standard developed to enable transmission of iSCSI
block storage commands and data over an existing IP network by using the TCP/IP
protocol. The encapsulated iSCSI commands and data can be transmitted over a local area
network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN). As with traditional SCSI, an iSCSI storage
solution requires at least one “initiator” residing on the client computer and at least one
“target” residing on the storage server.
Once the connection is established between the iSCSI initiator and the iSCSI target, the
operating system on the iSCSI initiator sees the storage as a local storage device that can
be formatted, read, and written in the usual manner.