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JimRothrock
Aug 29, 2025Follower
Corruption when reading large files from an RN31400 over SMB
When I copy a large file (example: Ubuntu 24.04.3 ISO, 6.3 GB) from my RN31400 NAS to my local drive on a Windows 10 machine using SMB, the file will almost always contain at least one error (as dete...
Sandshark
Sep 01, 2025Sensei - Experienced User
While I don't typically copy really large file to my PC, I do have a couple of very large Veracrypt files that I access from a PC on a regular basis. Any corruption such as you are seeing would likely make the volume inaccessible, and I've seen none.
Now, because of an issue with VeraCrypt, strict sync is turned off on the share that contains the VeraCrypt volumes. So, you might want to try disabling it and see if it fixes the problem, though Strict Sync usually affects writes instead of reads.
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