Volume

Volumes provide the basic storage space on your DiskStation. All of your stuffs -- such as shared folders, documents, and package data -- are stored on volumes. Therefore, before you start storing anything on your DiskStation, you'll need to create at least one volume.

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If volumes are used as replicated targets of Snapshot Replication, the replication performance can be improved by adjusting the settings of Record File Access Time Frequency in the Edit window after volumes are created:

Volume Format

Depending on the file system in use, there are two volume formats:

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