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How Long should it take
I bought an NV+ v1 by mistake. had it up and running with 3 three terrabyte drives in a few hours. BUT it was 750gb partitions. went ahead and bought the NV+ V2 and moved the drives. This of course throws errors, and according to the manual a factory reset should work but does not. I got it running by putting a fourth "clean drive" in by itself and setting up the system. then I plugged in the three "used" drives. While the drive indicators in Raidar were green, it sat without telling me what was happening for over 12 hours, and no volume showed up in the menu. But, there were no errors, and it let me into the setup page. (It just was not working)
Finally I did a factory reset again (from the user interface), and it came up, created the volume and everything looks fine. It showed the volume in about 1.5 hours, and looks to be working.
EXCEPT...
Now it has been doing a resynch of drive 4 for over 6 hours, and no indication of progress or status. :?
3 questions:
1) how can I tell if it is really working (progress bar at zero)
2) how log should it take to resynch a single 3 tb drive that is empty?
3) the volume is showing 8.1TB. How big of a volume with xraid2 should I see with 4 "three terrabyte drives"?
Running:
NV+ v2
radiator 5.3.4
256 megs of ram
xraid2
4 brand new Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN166 (3 terrabyte drives)
Finally I did a factory reset again (from the user interface), and it came up, created the volume and everything looks fine. It showed the volume in about 1.5 hours, and looks to be working.
EXCEPT...
Now it has been doing a resynch of drive 4 for over 6 hours, and no indication of progress or status. :?
3 questions:
1) how can I tell if it is really working (progress bar at zero)
2) how log should it take to resynch a single 3 tb drive that is empty?
3) the volume is showing 8.1TB. How big of a volume with xraid2 should I see with 4 "three terrabyte drives"?
Running:
NV+ v2
radiator 5.3.4
256 megs of ram
xraid2
4 brand new Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN166 (3 terrabyte drives)
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- -The available capacity is 9 TB in the SI units used by the drive manufacturers, with is 8.185 TiB (the units reported by ReadyNAS V1 and x86, and I think the V2). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte
-Expanding the raid array rewrites every sector on every drive, even if the drives are empty. (It happens at the physical layer, below the file system). - Thanks for the reply.
I found the rollover button that shows progress. I am assuming that the 39% it is currently at is for the entire volume. so the drive 4 activity (and resynch message) is a bit misleading. From what I can tell, it will take a little over 24 hours to build the raid array.
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