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ReadyNas RN31400 stuck in boot at "Encryption Key 53%" followed by "Fail to startup"
I have a ReadyNas 314 running firmware 6.6.0. It's been running for about 3 years, with dual 2 TB hard drives, with encryption. The drives are about 70% full, and the performance started dropping. ...
Hi, the solution for the encryption key, and my occasional sure performance/hanging is to turn off quotas. Starting in version 6.4, the readynas turned on quotas as a means on ensuring snapshots don't take too much space. But due whatever reason quotas are really cpu intensive. I suspect suspect (but don't know) that failing to rebalance your nas can also trigger the quota issue.
So if you can boot and reach the admin web interface, 1. Turn off quotas, which is a check box added on 6.7.0. I dunt remember where it is exactly, sorry. If you do anything "adminish" to your nas, it will turn quotas back on, so you have to check it. What exactly counts as adminish wasn't clear to my L3 guy. 2. Turn on a weekly rebalance and defrag. If you have never rebalanced, back your system up first because it could take "weeks" to do so.
Good luck!
So if you can boot and reach the admin web interface, 1. Turn off quotas, which is a check box added on 6.7.0. I dunt remember where it is exactly, sorry. If you do anything "adminish" to your nas, it will turn quotas back on, so you have to check it. What exactly counts as adminish wasn't clear to my L3 guy. 2. Turn on a weekly rebalance and defrag. If you have never rebalanced, back your system up first because it could take "weeks" to do so.
Good luck!
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