External server mounting is intended for establishing a connection to a third party NAS storage, which shares data via NFS. With CloudJiffy Cloud, the process of its integration is fairly simple, since you don’t need to perform any additional configurations at either platform or storage side.
So, if you have your own storage server with the properly structured content being already set up, with this option you get rid of the necessity to copy or transfer it anywhere - just mount and share data across the layers, environments or even multiple CloudJiffy installations.
Otherwise, i.e. if you are just planning to create your own high performance and reliable storage, consider leveraging the Dedicated CloudJiffy Storage Container. It’s delivered with all of the necessary software being preinstalled, thus you can utilize such storage just after the creation with no extra configurations required.