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RN104 Extremely Slow Rebuild Time.
G'day, I am trying to expand my RN104 and it is taking an extremely long time. It is set to X-RAID2, with 2 3TB drives. I have added a third, and it is taking an way to long to rebuild. So far it h...
I Think I have solved the problem.
After finally getting all my data off (that was worth the effort to keep), I powered the unit down, then went to pull the drives to rearrange them - and I was planning to start again with just the 2 WD Reds.
When I went to remove the bay containing the WD Green drive, the drive got "stuck" in the unit. As I pulled the tray out, the drive began to disengage from the tray. I had to "re-lock" the drive back into the drive tray, and then remove it carefully.
I then put the Green Drive in a different tray, rearranged the drives in the NAS, (leaving the bay the Green Drive was in free), and restarted the NAS.
At reboot, it was reporting 19.87% completed with 24hrs to go.
It has been 2 hours since, and it is now up to 25.35% with a touch over 20hrs to go.
So the problem is solved, but now I am left with working out what was wrong in the first place. I think the Green Drive was just not quite connecting properly. Leading to slow performance (due to read / write errors?)? But was the problem the tray, or the bay in the NAS? IS there an easy way to test, that isn't going to put my data at risk again?
I'm pretty sure the drive was not the problem, since it is now seems to be syncing fine.
After finally getting all my data off (that was worth the effort to keep), I powered the unit down, then went to pull the drives to rearrange them - and I was planning to start again with just the 2 WD Reds.
When I went to remove the bay containing the WD Green drive, the drive got "stuck" in the unit. As I pulled the tray out, the drive began to disengage from the tray. I had to "re-lock" the drive back into the drive tray, and then remove it carefully.
I then put the Green Drive in a different tray, rearranged the drives in the NAS, (leaving the bay the Green Drive was in free), and restarted the NAS.
At reboot, it was reporting 19.87% completed with 24hrs to go.
It has been 2 hours since, and it is now up to 25.35% with a touch over 20hrs to go.
So the problem is solved, but now I am left with working out what was wrong in the first place. I think the Green Drive was just not quite connecting properly. Leading to slow performance (due to read / write errors?)? But was the problem the tray, or the bay in the NAS? IS there an easy way to test, that isn't going to put my data at risk again?
I'm pretty sure the drive was not the problem, since it is now seems to be syncing fine.
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