Adding a 3rd Drive to ReadNAS 204 (1660 hours)

[the_Agent]

Hi there,

I got a ReadyNAS 204 and 2 brand new WD Red 5TB. Installing the two drives took the NAS 16 hours. After that I copied 5 TB of Data (95% full) on the NAS. After that I inserted a WD Green 5 TB in slot 3. It says reshaping data will take 1660 hours (one full week). After 24 hours it says 17,5% done, so it seems quite accurate. Is this normal for a system like that?

Greetings

Wolfgang

[mdgm-ntgr · Accepted solution]

Do you still have this problem after updating to 6.5.0?

[mdgm-ntgr]

Which firmware are you running?

There is a known issue with the performance of hot-adding a disk to the array in ReadyNAS OS 6.4.x. There is a fix for this in the next firmware release 6.5.0.

Which services (under System > Settings > Services) and which apps are you running? If you put a high load on a system with e.g. services and apps that can slow down a reshape as well.

[the_Agent]

Hi there,

the NAS is fresh out of the box with no apps installed and Firmware 6.4.2 running.

I only created one folder, copied 5TB of data into it and linked the folder to my PC.

I'm not using the data on the NAS in any way for now.

If it's only a performance problem I just have to wait, right?

Thanx

Wolfgang

[mdgm-ntgr]

So which services are you running under System > Settings > Services ?

Yes you just need to wait.

[the_Agent]

SMB, AFP, HTTPS, ReadyDLNA, UPnP and HTTP.

[mdgm-ntgr]

O.K. so it doesn't sound like you are running anything that should slow the sync to a crawl.

[the_Agent]

After a week the 3rd drive was perfecly ingetrated.

But writing files to the NAS went from 85MB/Sec (2 Discs) to 18 MB/Sec (3 Discs). Is this normal?

[StephenB]

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@the_Agent wrote:

After a week the 3rd drive was perfecly ingetrated.

But writing files to the NAS went from 85MB/Sec (2 Discs) to 18 MB/Sec (3 Discs). Is this normal?

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No.

[mdgm-ntgr · Accepted solution]

Do you still have this problem after updating to 6.5.0?

[the_Agent]

The Update to 6.5.0 got my speed back to normal.

Should have bought the NAS two weeks later to avoid all the problems 😉

Thanks for all your kind support!