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NAS104 Raid decision? Xraid vs Raid 10 etc #24296869
I just got a NAS 104 and installed 4 3TB Western Digital Red disks. Since I bought all my drives I don't really plan to upgrade or mess with the drives in the near future. When I powered up and ...
StephenB wrote:
I'd benchmark RAID-6 before I used it. Dual RAID-1 isn't quite as good protection, but I think it will be quite a bit faster. Doing all the parity block computations in software will slow
Thanks for all the comments. I am benchmarking. I just did Raid 10, pretty disappointing, I will share results when I get more done. Problem is when I destroyed the volume and then created a raid 6 one it takes like 20 hours to rebuild. Can't believe it takes so long, hurry up and wait!
mdgm wrote: We have made some changes to improve performance in 6.2.0.
Testing on that, preferably on a clean setup would be good.
I am!
Edit: Actually after 30 minutes, Raid 6 build is saying it is going to take 50 hours still. What on earth takes so long?
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