File Server Upgrades...
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I'm the process up upgrading my old 3.3TB FreeNAS file server to 10TB. No big deal. Power down (after uptime of 243 days). Replace six 750GB drives with 2TB flavors. Go into the Areca-1230 controller BIOS, couple quick configs, and then... wait 40 hours (yup, forty hours) :wtf: while it thinks about the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything -- which oddly resembles initializing around 4 billion parity blocks, but what to I know. Guess it didn't read the book. Ye gads. :wtf: I thought just backing the thing up was a joy to behold. -- Ian
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I'm the process up upgrading my old 3.3TB FreeNAS file server to 10TB. No big deal. Power down (after uptime of 243 days). Replace six 750GB drives with 2TB flavors. Go into the Areca-1230 controller BIOS, couple quick configs, and then... wait 40 hours (yup, forty hours) :wtf: while it thinks about the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything -- which oddly resembles initializing around 4 billion parity blocks, but what to I know. Guess it didn't read the book. Ye gads. :wtf: I thought just backing the thing up was a joy to behold. -- Ian
OK, I'll bite... If you took out the old hard drives, and these are fresh virgin drives... Where did you put the old ones to copy from, and shouldn't all the parity blocks be 0 on an empty system, so it won't take much "thinking"? Iain.
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OK, I'll bite... If you took out the old hard drives, and these are fresh virgin drives... Where did you put the old ones to copy from, and shouldn't all the parity blocks be 0 on an empty system, so it won't take much "thinking"? Iain.
I have now moved to Sweden for love (awwww). If you're in Scandinavia and want an MVP on the payroll (or happy with a remote worker), or need contract work done, give me a job! http://cv.imcsoft.co.uk/[^]
Another raid volume (server has two). Use lots of disks around here. As for the thinking... beats me. Maybe it XOR's patterns over the parity calc. I'm trying not to think about it too much. Maybe I'll paint something so I can watch it dry. Probably more exciting than watching the machine take ~3 minutes to advance 0.1%. Ug... -- Ian