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abruz
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Feb 02, 2018
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Scrub, Defrag, Balance: Recommended order ro remedy severely neglected maintenance

ReadyNAS 312 Firmware 6.9.2 2x4TB hard drives   ~3.5TB of usable space.  ~2TB of data  Should leave me ~1.5TB of free space.  However, I am at less than 100MB of free space.    I've read thro...
  • bedlam1's avatar
    Feb 02, 2018

    I think I would run Balance first, Defrag 2nd ans lastly Scrub which usually takes the longest to complete.

    The data can be accessed during these, but as you suspect reponse times may be affected 

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