Hi Robbie,
as always, love the show.
Recently I upgraded from the 1821+ to the 3622xs+. I got a great deal buying the unit new on ebay for $2,200 so I couldn't resist at that price point.
I was using (7) 16 TB Seagate EXOS drives in a RAID 5 array and added (2) more 16 TB Seagate EXOS drives for additional capacity and for conversion to RAID 6 to protect against 2 failed drives. Essentially I added 1 drive for expansion and 1 drive for redundancy.
The question I have is this. I am currently running the RAID conversion and expansion processes and it looks like it is going to take 4-5 days. Is the unit actually picking up and laying down each file one at a time since it has to create a second set of parity data and the stripes and block sizes will have changed since I am both expanding the volume pool and converting the RAID from RAID 5 to RAID 6.
THanks,
James.
as always, love the show.
Recently I upgraded from the 1821+ to the 3622xs+. I got a great deal buying the unit new on ebay for $2,200 so I couldn't resist at that price point.
I was using (7) 16 TB Seagate EXOS drives in a RAID 5 array and added (2) more 16 TB Seagate EXOS drives for additional capacity and for conversion to RAID 6 to protect against 2 failed drives. Essentially I added 1 drive for expansion and 1 drive for redundancy.
The question I have is this. I am currently running the RAID conversion and expansion processes and it looks like it is going to take 4-5 days. Is the unit actually picking up and laying down each file one at a time since it has to create a second set of parity data and the stripes and block sizes will have changed since I am both expanding the volume pool and converting the RAID from RAID 5 to RAID 6.
THanks,
James.