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New 316 (diskless) and upgrading to 6.2 before I start
Just purchased a 316 to replace an original Readynas, I also have a Readynas Pro Pioneer edition too. The diskless 316 box is labelled as having V6.1.6 firmware Questions: Should I upgrade to V...
StephenB wrote:
bdl99 wrote: So I have the two drives in, is it normal for the syncing/rebuilding to take 12+hours for 2 new/blank disks?
Though you might think that syncing/building an empty volume should be faster than a full one, that is not the case. RAID is between the physical storage and the file system. So even if the file system is empty, it still requires rewriting every sector in the volume. And replacing a drive also requires reading every sector of the remaining drives, and writing every sector of the new one.
Thanks, makes sense when you think about it that way.
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