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MikeB666
Jul 28, 2014Tutor
Defrag Running for Days! #23600598
I have a ReadyNAS 104 (OS six.one.eight) with 4 x 4TB drives in a single X-RAID RAID 5 volume so you get about 10.9TB usable. The system has 5.02TB of data on it. The system started a defrag last T...
MikeB666
Jul 29, 2014Tutor
mdgm wrote: My comment about was just saying that when you first setup the NAS and hadn't yet loaded data on, a factory reset on the latest firmware would have been good. Some improvements (not necessary but nice to have) can only be obtained via a factory reset on new firmware, so I always recommend with a new setup, updating to the latest firmware, verifying the update completed successfully, doing a factory reset and only then configuring it and putting data on.
Now that you have loaded a lot of data on one would think all other options should be exhausted first.
Thanks mdgm, understood.
Well after my vacation I may reset one and then copy back from the other then reset that one too and recopy back to that.
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