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Jacqui1961
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Dec 28, 2015

4 x 2TB installed in a OS6 how long does it take to RAID format?

Just purchased the OS6 system and have installed 4 x 2TB seagate Hard drives that were previously used. It ha now bee 24 hours and the system is saying that it is at 57.31% Resync data. Does it usually take this long?

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  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired

    Which model do you have and which firmware?

     

    Which services and apps are you running?

     

    The sync uses a lot of resources and can take a long time. The more things you are doing with the NAS the slower it will be.

     

    The NAS has to sync the disks sector by sector.

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