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Readynas 214 Resync after volume rebuild
Hi,
I am having a problem - or rather a massive incoveniance. I have purchased the Readynas 214 device, separately 4 8TB WD drives. I have installed it but accidentally pressed the power button right after it started to boot. Upon finishing the config, I noticed that the drive is resyncing, and sitting on 4%.
So I went to destroy the volume, as it was empty anyway, rebuilt it from scratch hoping this will bypass the resync, but alas, started from zero, now it sits at 1% and is likely to take entire day or even two.
Is that normal behaviour? Can it be stopped? This stuff didnt happen with my old X4 (WD Cloud).
Adding this to the admin password 5 minute lockdown problem ( had to google this one, many people are experiencing it, only worked for me once I used Edge of all things), and the first impression is really bad.
Any help or response appreciated.
Kind regards,
Luke
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I don't know what triggered it. But it can't be stopped now. Destroying/recreating the volume rebuilds the RAID array from the beginning.
Re-sync of a new volume is a normal condition. If WD avoided it, then they must have used the "assume-clean" option for RAID creation, and I'm sure you';ve heard what "assume" can mean. In your case, the new drives probably were "clean", but they may have had unmarked errors (yes, even new). Of course, the NAS has no way of knowing your drives were new, either.
The NAS is doing what is best, even if you don't realize it. It is assuring that the created RAID is fully functional. Though you'll notice some sluggishness, you should be able to utilize the NAS while it syncs. If you copy a lot of data to it, though, that may slow the sync further.
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