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Dual Redundancy / raid-6 on OS 6
So I have am serveral days into the process of getting a dual redundant OS 6 nas. Really, there has got to be a better way than this; assuming starting with a new clean nas, - update to latest...
yes, I have done the raid5 to 6 conversion with 4.x, and it took a long time, but I don't think it was 2 weeks.
In any case, my primary issue is not that raid 6 conversion takes a long time, but that as you mention it takes much less time to initialize a raid 6 volume from the start.
Since the volume was empty, I should have just deleted the default raid 5 volume and created a new raid 6 volume.
My old pro bus (also now on os 6, and with 4gig ram) has been sitting on a full raid 5 with 5x 4tb disks (it has all the data I backed up from my pro 6), and I will eventually have to decide if I want to do the raid 6 conversion, or just delete the existing volume and create a new raid 6 volume from scratch (once I get a last new 4tb drive).
In any case, my primary issue is not that raid 6 conversion takes a long time, but that as you mention it takes much less time to initialize a raid 6 volume from the start.
Since the volume was empty, I should have just deleted the default raid 5 volume and created a new raid 6 volume.
My old pro bus (also now on os 6, and with 4gig ram) has been sitting on a full raid 5 with 5x 4tb disks (it has all the data I backed up from my pro 6), and I will eventually have to decide if I want to do the raid 6 conversion, or just delete the existing volume and create a new raid 6 volume from scratch (once I get a last new 4tb drive).
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