Abstract: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for the automatic management of volumes, such as creation, migration, and rebuilding for redundant array of independent disks (RAID). The automated management is triggered upon the installation of a new drive in a network attached storage (NAS) device and proceeds according to a user-specified setting. The management is automatic in that user intervention would not be required or requested and would be triggered transparently upon the insertion of a new drive into the NAS device. The embodiments may be employed in other types of multi-drive devices, such as direct attached storage devices, storage area networks, external drives. In addition, the embodiments may be employed with different types of storage media, such as solid-state drives, hybrid drives, etc., in addition to hard disk drives.