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# Create a volume
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## Create a new volume using the control panel
To create an NFS volume, you click on **File storage** under **Storage** in the left-hand menu and then click **Create volume**.
In the next dialog box, select a name for the volume. You will also need to choose the data center where the volume will be located and its size. In this example, we select a 100 GiB volume to be placed in Falkenberg. You should choose the data center where our servers are located.
You can also choose to have the volume automatically upgraded to the next size level if it becomes full.
Once you’ve made all the selections, click **Create volume**. It takes about five minutes to create a new volume.
Once the volume is ready, you need to allow servers to connect to it. See [Manage access to volumes](/products/storage/file-storage/how-tos/manage-access-to-volumes.md) on how to grant access to the volume.
## Create a new volume using the API
To create a new volume, use the [filestorage/createvolume](https://github.com/GleSYS/API-docs/wiki/API-Documentation#filestoragecreatevolume) endpoint. For general instructions on how to use the API, see [Platform → API](/platform/control-panel/api.md).
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