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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 ...
mdgm wrote: Are you running much on the NAS? That can slow this process down. It should be noted that the volume is redundant throughout the process of doing the initial sync of the volume.
Also the early estimates for how long it will take can be much longer than what turns out to be the case.
I literally plugged it in for the first time yesterday. After physically installing the drives and connecting using the web interface I immediately updated the firmware. Then I built the raid 10 array which took 20 hours in real time. Then I just destroyed it and started the raid 6 rebuild.
I have played with the user/groups menu a bit, but I haven't enabled any services or apps other than the defaults. There is no data on it.
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