Before adding a NAS volume for your Buffalo TeraStation NAS to Stratocast™, you must create the volume in your Buffalo software application.
Before you begin
- Install your Buffalo NAS.
- Based on the video quality you want to achieve and the retention period of your video recordings, calculate the storage space that you need for each NAS volume you want to create on your NAS.
- Make sure that you are the administrator on your NAS device, because only administrators can create NAS volumes. Also, the administrator must have read and write access on the NAS.
- If you create users for each NAS, make sure to give them access to their respective volumes. See the product documentation provided by your NAS manufacturer for instructions on how to create users.
What you should know
For the latest information about your Buffalo NAS, refer to the Buffalo website and the product documentation that is provided with your device.
Procedure
To create a volume on your Buffalo NAS:
Example
Let's assume that you have a NAS device with a total storage capacity of 1 TB and you want to store the video recordings from four video units onto this NAS. The desired video quality from each of the four video units is the same, and the retention period of the video recordings is also the same. As a result, you can create four unique NAS volumes on your NAS device, and set a storage capacity of 250 GB for each volume. In this scenario, 250 GB of storage space is allocated to each video unit.
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