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The Device Configuration Web Page

The “Device Configuration” screen has four sub-menus:

•    SATA Disk
•    USB Disk
•    USB Printer
•    eSATA Disk

For the internal SATA disk, it will display the drive model, as well as showing the total and free storage on it. You have the choice of formatting the drive, checking it for errors, or doing a bad sector scan.

For a USB Disk, you can choose which USB drive you are working with, and you can format it as either a Linux EXT3 or FAT partition. There's also an eject drive option, so that you avoid file  corruption by disconnecting it by pulling while the drive is possibly transferring files. You may also flag the drive for data sharing or Q-RAID1

You have the same options for eSATA disks as for USB drives.

For USB printers, the system is set up to automatically detect the printer, and you only have the choice of running a cleaning cycle on the printer. Being able to print a test page would have been useful here.