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From scratch; 'resyncing' new drives is taking a week, should I be concerned? Follow Up
I wanted to follow up on the original article but it was closed (https://community.netgear.com/t5/New-ReadyNAS-Users-General/Connect-2-ReadyNAS-104-via-USB-for-data-transfer/m-p/2165074#M47178).
I've had a ReadyNas 104 running with 4x8TB drives since Mar 2020 and have had no problems.
I'm in the process now of upgrading my second RN104 to the same config (4x8TB but differnt drives makes...got good deal on 8TB drives).
All drives are 7200 RPM for "performance" but again, from first config, haven't had any issues.
HTH
Dave
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forgot to mention...it does take days to resync from new and admin page when monitoring does crap out from time to time...
DO NOT powerdown/restart while resyncing...even though new drives, it will restart from scratch the whole resync process (lesson learned hard way)
What specific drives are you using? I hope that "good deal" wasn't for "archive" drives or any that are SMR, as they are not a good choice and will have very poor write performance.
yep..not SMR
First NAS - 4 x seagate 8TB st8000vn0022 Ironwolf's
Second NAS - 1 x HGST 8TB + 3 x Toshiba hdwr180 8TB (this was the crap shoot with the 3 toshiba drives under $200 cdn each plus my spare HGST)
So far so good...but again, second nas is going to be DAYS to resync
HTH
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