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ReadyNAS RN104 Slow
My ReadyNAS RN104 was recently at under 5% capacity, before I purchased another disk. However, since installing that new disk, the NAS is running very slowly, specifically with transfer speeds. This ...
Yes, you should do volume maintenance and you can actually set a schedule for it to run automatically. You may check the different maintenance on this article. To setup maintenance schedule, you can check it here. The slow performance might also be because of the ReadyNAS still syncing the disk at the time.
Also, we don't really recommend using the NAS as the only means of backup for your data, the NAS or RAID can help you avoid or recover from failures and while you can store backups of your data on the NAS it is still advisable to keep at least 2 to 3 copies on different storage. IMO, keeping more copies the better :)
HTH
Regards
Yes, you should do volume maintenance and you can actually set a schedule for it to run automatically. You may check the different maintenance on this article. To setup maintenance schedule, you can check it here. The slow performance might also be because of the ReadyNAS still syncing the disk at the time.
Also, we don't really recommend using the NAS as the only means of backup for your data, the NAS or RAID can help you avoid or recover from failures and while you can store backups of your data on the NAS it is still advisable to keep at least 2 to 3 copies on different storage. IMO, keeping more copies the better :)
HTH
Regards
Marc_VThanks for that. I did read over those articles you've linked, so I'll look into getting a maintenance schedule set up.
Marc_V StephenB Regarding whether the NAS is still resyncing... It has finished, though of course it took some time to. It was definitely markedly slower whilst this process was happening.
StephenBThanks for the pointers on snapshots :)
StephenB wrote:Well, safety and integrity must not be very important
OK, smarty-pants, I stand corrected. I do have varying backups of the data (note I said I don't have anywhere to backup the entire NAS, as in, in one dump), but my point was that I'd really rather not run a process that has a high risk of damaging data (if there is such a thing).
I'll admit I'm a little behind on the times, since I didn't know about the likes of WD Easystore. I will point out that, as far as I can tell, the WD Easystore isn't available here in Australia, and similar products run closer to $500.
Marc_V wrote:
Also, we don't really recommend using the NAS as the only means of backup for your data, the NAS or RAID can help you avoid or recover from failures and while you can store backups of your data on the NAS it is still advisable to keep at least 2 to 3 copies on different storage. IMO, keeping more copies the better :)
I absolutely agree, and I see now that my original statement was a little misleading, as above.
So I guess my question now would be, is a 3 month schedule, as StephenB uses, suitable for the maintenance schedule? Are there reasons I should run the tests more or less frequently?
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