Western Digital My Cloud Mirror User Manual User Manual

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MANAGING STORAGE ON WD MY CLOUD MIRROR

WD MY CLOUD MIRROR PERSONAL CLOUD STORAGE

USER MANUAL

3. Click Change RAID Mode at the bottom of the screen.

4. Review the Warning message and click OK.

5. Select the RAID mode you’d like to use for your WD My Cloud Mirror device.

Options include:

6. Select the Switch to check box and click Next.

7. Review the status of your hard drives and click Next.

JBOD

The use of one or more drives not in a RAID configuration but
managed as separate logical volumes.

Spanning

Combination of drives in a linear fashion to create one large logical
volume.

RAID 0

Data is striped across multiple hard drives, enabling accelerated
reading and recording of data by combining the work of two or more
drives to increase performance.

RAID 1 (default)

Two instantaneous copies of the data are recorded on separate hard
drives so if one of them fails, other(s) continue to read/write data until
the faulty hard drive is replaced.