Expansion Enclosure Management

The functions listed below are managed via the QNAP QTS operating system.

Support for hard disk’s S.M.A.R.T. capacity

• RAID expansion enclosure LED identifier
• Location indication of RAID expansion enclosure
• Location indication of hard disks on RAID expansion enclosure
• Smart fan control
• In-band firmware update
• QNAP Flexible Volume
• The disks, RAID Groups, storage pools, and volumes in the RAID expansion enclosures are configured via the QTS operating system.

Support for multiple RAID groups in a storage pool to ensure data safety

• Online storage pool expansion
• Online volume expansion
• Block-based iSCSI LUN
• Support for thin-provisioned volume with space reclamation
• Support for thin-provisioned iSCSI LUN with space reclamation