Storage Pool and Volumes

Since the setup ended up a bit differently with the F4-424 Max, we figured we'd go over how you set up a storage pool and volumes quickly. This is done by going into the control panel, and since we haven't created a user accessible storage pool or volume as yet, we can start by creating a new volume, this will give you the option to automatically create a storage pool and a volume at the same time.


TOS6 defaults to TRAID and btrfs, which should be a sensible enough solution for most users, as maximum drive space is being made available to the user, while some redundancy is also present. We did of course test all the major RAID modes, except TRAID+, as it's largely the same as TRAID, unless you're using drives of varying size. Any type of RAID with redundancy will take around 10 hours to synchronize, even with small 4 TB drives as the ones we used for testing, which means you don't want to start using your NAS before the synchronization is done, as it will be slow to transfer data to and from your NAS and on top of that, the synchronization process will take even longer.

Disk Configuration

Below is the output from the lsblk command on Linux, which shows the disk configuration. As pointed out in a previous review, TOS 6 lists everything as expected.

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 3.6T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 285M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 7.6G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 1.9G 0 part
└─sda4 8:4 0 3.6T 0 part
└─md0 9:0 0 10.9T 0 raid5
└─vg0-lv0 252:0 0 10.9T 0 lvm /home
/Volume1
/var/subvols/8vEbTxkKvwa
sdb 8:16 0 3.6T 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 285M 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 0 7.6G 0 part
├─sdb3 8:19 0 1.9G 0 part
└─sdb4 8:20 0 3.6T 0 part
└─md0 9:0 0 10.9T 0 raid5
└─vg0-lv0 252:0 0 10.9T 0 lvm /home
/Volume1
/var/subvols/8vEbTxkKvwa
sdc 8:32 0 3.6T 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 0 285M 0 part
├─sdc2 8:34 0 7.6G 0 part
├─sdc3 8:35 0 1.9G 0 part
└─sdc4 8:36 0 3.6T 0 part
└─md0 9:0 0 10.9T 0 raid5
└─vg0-lv0 252:0 0 10.9T 0 lvm /home
/Volume1
/var/subvols/8vEbTxkKvwa
sdd 8:48 0 3.6T 0 disk
├─sdd1 8:49 0 285M 0 part
├─sdd2 8:50 0 7.6G 0 part
├─sdd3 8:51 0 1.9G 0 part
└─sdd4 8:52 0 3.6T 0 part
└─md0 9:0 0 10.9T 0 raid5
└─vg0-lv0 252:0 0 10.9T 0 lvm /home
/Volume1
/var/subvols/8vEbTxkKvwa
nbd0 43:0 0 0B 0 disk
nbd1 43:32 0 0B 0 disk
nbd2 43:64 0 0B 0 disk
nbd3 43:96 0 0B 0 disk
nbd4 43:128 0 0B 0 disk
nbd5 43:160 0 0B 0 disk
nbd6 43:192 0 0B 0 disk
nbd7 43:224 0 0B 0 disk
sdzb 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sdzb1 259:2 0 285M 0 part
├─sdzb2 259:3 0 7.6G 0 part
├─sdzb3 259:4 0 1.9G 0 part
└─sdzb4 259:5 0 921.5G 0 part
sdza 259:1 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sdza1 259:6 0 285M 0 part
├─sdza2 259:7 0 7.6G 0 part
│ └─md9 9:9 0 7.6G 0 raid1 /
├─sdza3 259:8 0 1.9G 0 part
│ └─md8 9:8 0 1.9G 0 raid1 [SWAP]
└─sdza4 259:9 0 1.8T 0 part
nbd8 43:256 0 0B 0 disk
nbd9 43:288 0 0B 0 disk
nbd10 43:320 0 0B 0 disk
nbd11 43:352 0 0B 0 disk
nbd12 43:384 0 0B 0 disk
nbd13 43:416 0 0B 0 disk
nbd14 43:448 0 0B 0 disk
nbd15 43:480 0 0B 0 disk