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Data Scrubbing - Find out how long?
Being new to ReadyNAS there were various things I wanted to know. One of these was Data Scrubbing. Now having understood more about it, the obvious question is how long does it take. I have now don...
Data is not relevant, as the scrub runs below the file system layer. An empty volume takes the same amount of time as a full one. Your total is volume size in TiB, so I adjusted the units. A scrub reads every sector (including parity or mirrored sectors), so raw disk capacity is more relevant than volume size (though that is easily obtained from the disk info). I added my info, and deleted the data column.
System ..... OS ...... RAID .... Disks ......... Total ........ Scrubbing time
RN516 ...... 6.2.2 ... 10 ....... 6 of 4 TB .... 10.90 TiB ... 17 Hrs 35 Mins
Pro-6 ....... 4.2.27 .. 5 ....... 6 of 3 TB .... 13.6 TiB ... 9 Hrs 45 Mins
System ..... OS ...... RAID .... Disks ......... Total ........ Scrubbing time
RN516 ...... 6.2.2 ... 10 ....... 6 of 4 TB .... 10.90 TiB ... 17 Hrs 35 Mins
Pro-6 ....... 4.2.27 .. 5 ....... 6 of 3 TB .... 13.6 TiB ... 9 Hrs 45 Mins
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