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From scratch; 'resyncing' new drives is taking a week, should I be concerned?
With a ReadyNas 104, and 4x new 8TB disks is this normal? Am I really going to have to wait more than a week for it to finish syncing? My understanding is if I try to use the drives as-is whils...
I assume the drives are healthy? No errors on any of them?
You are likely limited by the CPU and RAM here. The RN104 houses a single core ARM chip and 512MB of RAM. It is very limited what this unit can do, in general. There probably isn't much you can do to speed it up :(. Just ensure your drives are at least healthy (hover over them in the GUI and check).
The other thing I would say is that with such a lower power unit, I would stay far away from letting it handle large volumes - especially if the data matters to you. IMO, letting this unit handle 20TB+ volumes is way beyond their use case. It is meant for basic home NAS needs on a small volume.
I fear for how this venture will turn out in the long run. Please ensure you have up-to-date backups at all times! :)
Happy new year.
rn_enthusiast wrote:I assume the drives are healthy? No errors on any of them?
You are likely limited by the CPU and RAM here. The RN104 houses a single core ARM chip and 512MB of RAM. It is very limited what this unit can do, in general. There probably isn't much you can do to speed it up :(. Just ensure your drives are at least healthy (hover over them in the GUI and check).
The other thing I would say is that with such a lower power unit, I would stay far away from letting it handle large volumes - especially if the data matters to you. IMO, letting this unit handle 20TB+ volumes is way beyond their use case. It is meant for basic home NAS needs on a small volume.
I fear for how this venture will turn out in the long run. Please ensure you have up-to-date backups at all times! :)
Happy new year.
The drives appear healthy on the GUI, but they are only 5400rpm with little cache so I suppose that doesn't help.
I actually have two other RN104's running, since 2014 (!), which is why I figured I'd just stick with what I knew and trusted - although they are only 10TB and 8TB volumes respectively. I forget how long they took to sync. in fact I completely forgot everything about them as I haven't had to touch them except to move them around when decorating.
In terms of your fears for the venture can you expand? I get that data loss happens - there's nothing on these drives that I can't live without for example (which is not to say it wouldn't be galling) but as long as we aren't talking about potential physical hardware issues...?
I'm open to any suggestions for a better setup / model as well.
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