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rgollar
Mar 02, 2015Aspirant
Just loaded readynas 516 with these drives (ST8000AS0002)
I just wanted to let people know that the readynas 516 is working just fine so far with Seagate ST8000AS0002 8TB hard drives. I so far have populated it with 4 of them and it has had no problems. Once...
zackiv31
Apr 10, 2015Aspirant
Hey @rgollar. Just had one last question for you. Do you know how long/how fast your initial sync was on these drives? I just installed 6x8tb in my ReadyNAS Pro and the sync is showing something like 6 days to complete, hovering around 16MB/s sync:
I'm ok if this is the one time cost, but even at 15MB/s, this seems low for these drives.
root@pro:~# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md127 : active raid6 sdf3[5] sde3[4] sdd3[3] sdc3[2] sdb3[1] sda3[0]
31236707328 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU]
[=>...................] resync = 6.4% (502031968/7809176832) finish=9243.5min speed=13174K/sec
md1 : active raid6 sdf2[5] sde2[4] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1] sda2[0]
2094848 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU]
md0 : active raid1 sdf1[5] sde1[4] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] sda1[0]
4190208 blocks super 1.2 [6/6] [UUUUUU]
unused devices: <none>
I'm ok if this is the one time cost, but even at 15MB/s, this seems low for these drives.
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