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Adiemus
Nov 26, 2011Aspirant
Much Ado About ReadyNAS Ultra 4
Hi, Does anyone have an estimate of how much time is needed to initialise 4 x 2Tb Hitachi HDD on a ReadyNAS Ultra 4? I had this unit set up and it was working fine. I decided to boot it up to...
PapaBear1
Aug 04, 2012Apprentice
My estimate is about 25 hours. Thats the bad news. The good news is that with rsync, the future backups (remember that while we call them backups, they are really synchronizations of the two units) will only take minutes, not hours. And of course you don't have to search incremental backups for a more recent copy of a file.
My estimate is based on 2.1TB being about 2.2 million megabytes and the backup will run about 25 megabytes/second or a little over 88,000 seconds = 24+ hours.
My estimate is based on 2.1TB being about 2.2 million megabytes and the backup will run about 25 megabytes/second or a little over 88,000 seconds = 24+ hours.
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