# ownCloud Administrators Manual

# Introduction

ownCloud provides the ability to mount an external storage device. The external storage devices serves as a secondary storage device within ownCloud.

The ownCloud Admin has the ability to create such a mount. In addition, the ownCloud Admin may decide to provide the end user the ability to create the mount. The mounts may be created on a per-user, per group, or all user basis.

## Supported mounts

The following lists the supported storage types.

- Local
- Amazon S3
- Dropbox
- FTP
- Google Drive
- OpenStack Object Storage
- SMB/CIFS
- ownCloud/WebDAV
- SFTP
- iRODS