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Defrag - Find out how long?
Being new to ReadyNAS there were various things I wanted to know. One of these was about the Defrag process and how long it takes to run. Having trawled through the forums, one thing is apparent. ...
BaJohn wrote: What you don't know is if the percentage complete is actually accurate and your scrub would have completed a lot sooner.
Incidentally, suggestions by 'the experts' indicate that scrubbing probably should be done every 3 months or so.
If you are not going to do it, then there presumably will be consequences of making that choice.
Good point about the completion timing, but I just didn't want to leave the NAS powered on for (potentially) that amount of time, just to test. Obvioulsy, if there are consequences of NOT scrubbing periodically, then I will no doubt have to do it at some stage. For the moment, I'll just see what falls out of your 'experiment' :)
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