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Hello everyone!
Been running FreeNAS for 3 years now, love it. I have an 11 disk Raid z3, and right now I am resilvering 2 disks at a time ( I know this may not be safe, but all my important data is backed up to CrashPlan Pro). My NAS is at capacity, only 80GB of free space. I have 64GB RAM, 2 x XEON E5640, 11 x HGST 1TB Disks in RAID z3, Upgrading to 11 x 2TB HGST disks.
I have 2 questions:
1. Is there any way to correlate the disks, to their location in the NAS. IE Bay 1 is /dev/sda1, etc... I know I can put that in the disk Description, but I am still curious.
2. It takes about 36 hours to resilver 2 disks. At the current rate of 2 disks every ~ 36 hours, it will take almost 8 days to complete. Is there any way to speed this up?
Thanks!
3 UPDATES:
1. If you add a disk to the resilver process, IE, your resilvering 2 disks, and add another, it starts the process over entirely!
2. If you offline a disk, and replace it, you CANNOT add the original disk back into the pool in the event of a failure, at least not from the GUI.
3. It appears that the number of disks you resilver does not affect the speed of the resilver process
So, just some usefull data based on my setup, that may help someone in the future. It could be that I have one bad disk, but we will see soon, and I will give another update.
Been running FreeNAS for 3 years now, love it. I have an 11 disk Raid z3, and right now I am resilvering 2 disks at a time ( I know this may not be safe, but all my important data is backed up to CrashPlan Pro). My NAS is at capacity, only 80GB of free space. I have 64GB RAM, 2 x XEON E5640, 11 x HGST 1TB Disks in RAID z3, Upgrading to 11 x 2TB HGST disks.
I have 2 questions:
1. Is there any way to correlate the disks, to their location in the NAS. IE Bay 1 is /dev/sda1, etc... I know I can put that in the disk Description, but I am still curious.
2. It takes about 36 hours to resilver 2 disks. At the current rate of 2 disks every ~ 36 hours, it will take almost 8 days to complete. Is there any way to speed this up?
Thanks!
3 UPDATES:
1. If you add a disk to the resilver process, IE, your resilvering 2 disks, and add another, it starts the process over entirely!
2. If you offline a disk, and replace it, you CANNOT add the original disk back into the pool in the event of a failure, at least not from the GUI.
3. It appears that the number of disks you resilver does not affect the speed of the resilver process
So, just some usefull data based on my setup, that may help someone in the future. It could be that I have one bad disk, but we will see soon, and I will give another update.
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