System Settings Part#1

You will most likely click on the Control Panel icon first. Click on this icon to access the System Settings, Privilege Settings, Network Services, and Applications tabs. We will start with the System Settings tab.


The General Settings group provides system-administration-specific options. You can change the server's name and the system port here, alter time settings, check codepage options, and specify password rules. These options also allow you to set the login screen's style.


The Network group gives you access to all TCP/IP settings, where you can enable either two- or four-NIC mode. You should enable the respective option to provide a higher bandwidth between the NAS and Ethernet switch if the latter supports Link Aggregation. LACP obviously requires multiple Ethernet cables for connectivity to all NAS ports. Another important option is Jumbo Frames, a reference to Ethernet frames that are larger than 1500 bytes. Jumbo Frames is designed to boost networking throughput and reduce CPU utilization on large-file transfers, by allowing larger payloads per packet. But there is a catch as the Jumbo Frames setting only applies to Gigabit network environments and all connected clients must enable the option with exactly the same MTU value for a performance boost.


This subgroup of settings also allows you to set a DDNS Service that will give you the WAN IP, which would allow you to locate the NAS even if your Internet connection doesn't use a static IP address.