Readynas 104

[marwunckelfunck]

Since the expansion of my Ultrapro didn't work out, I bought a new ReadyNas 104 with 3X4TB disks
One of them was from another disk, albeit clean formatted.

So, I did a Factory reset, and it's used 3 hours and gotten to 10 per cent.

Any way to speed that process up?

[StephenB]

None that I know of. It needs to write 12 TB of stuff.

[marwunckelfunck]

It says resyncing data on the LCD display. Sounds rather strange to me, since it's supposed to be no data on the drives.

Does it always do that?

[StephenB]

marwunckelfunckel wrote:
It says resyncing data on the LCD display. Sounds rather strange to me, since it's supposed to be no data on the drives. Does it always do that?

Yes. The amount of data on the disks is irrelevant. You can think of it as "formatting for raid". When you add or replace a drive, the raid striping pattern needs to be rewritten. This happens below the file system level, so it is the same process even if the disks are empty.

[marwunckelfunck]

Thank you for your quick and informative response!

[marwunckelfunck]

When can I start using the NAS?

[StephenB]

You can start using it as soon as the shares show up. Though performance will be slow until the resync completes - so there is a reward for patience...

[marwunckelfunck]

Thank you for the response. Is currently in the process of rcsyncing!