Readynas 312 Long Seek Times

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RPB123 wrote:

No maintenance is scheduled as you reference, how do I turn this on?

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The volume settings wheel includes the ability to schedule the various tests.  I run one per month (cycling through the set of four 3x a year).

But I wouldn't schedule anything now, instead I'd run some manually.

Start with the disk test, just to make sure it passes. 

After that run the balance.  Since it's likely never been run before, the balance could take a long time, and might further slow down system performance.  When run regularly, it completes pretty quickly.

People have different views on defrag.  I do run them myself as part the cycle, but I actually don't think they have a lot of value.  Still, if some often used files are fragmented, then performance will be affected. So I would run defrag in this case.

Last, run the scrub.

Then set up a schedule for them (and while you are at it, make sure the email alerts are working). 

While these tasks can improve performance, they might not solve your performance problem.  Still, they are worth a try.

Do you have disk spindown enabled?  That of course will slow down access when the disks need to spin up.  So that is also worth a look.  You can choose to schedule spindown only outside of normal working hours.