The 4-bay NAS is a disk drive enclosure. It houses up to four 3.5-inch hard drives in its front chassis and a single USM hard drive (see illustration below) in the USM slot. Supported drives are 3.0 Gb/s SATA that spin up to 7200 RPM. Each individual disk drive is swappable and field replaceable.
Windows Storage Server 2012 Workgroup is written to a partition on the first drive in the enclosure (far left). Disks, volumes, RAID, and all other drive management features are managed within the operating system. Seagate recommends that only users with Windows Server training and experience administer the 4-bay NAS.
Open the front door to reveal the disks.
See Drive and Hardware Maintenance for details on disk installation.
The 4-bay NAS has one USB 3.0 port and one USM slot on the front. It also features one USB 3.0 port and one USB 2.0 port on the rear. You can add capacity to the NAS by connecting compatible storage devices to the USB ports and USM slot. Storage connected to the NAS must be formatted using one of the following file systems: FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, or ReFS. Other storage formats will not be recognized by the NAS. Capacity limitations are based upon the disk drive's format.
The USB ports may be used to connect compatible USB devices such as a mouse, keyboard, etc.
See Drive and Hardware Maintenance for instructions on how to insert a USM disk into the USM slot.