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Synology Optimizing Disk - Enquiries - 07-25-2022
Is it possible to stop the disk from optimizing?
I currently have 4 drives x 4 TB that are SMR and I used to have RAID6 on them, I formatted them to have SHR-2 on them, but the process is taking way too long.
I want to stop the process and get rid of the SMR drives and replace them with CMR drives, but I need to get the data out of those drives (they are accessible but incredibly slow, so I just want to stop the optimizing disk for few hours to copy the data out and then throw the drives away)
So I was wondering if its possible to stop optimizing the disk while still keeping data on them?