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Old Jun 11, 2013 | 1:15 am
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Originally Posted by ohliuw
Two days to rebuild a RAID array? Whoaaaa! Looks like someone needs new NAS with better controller

Btw, you had 5 disks, I suppose you run RAID 5? Or two in RAID1, three in RAID 5?
You're right on both counts, and I could have been more clear at first yes. RAID 5 on an OLD NAS. Really old. Like... 600 MHz Celeron old. But for what I use it for it's just sufficient as long as I don't need to rebuild. The plan is to replace in a few years, hopefully before I need to rebuild again! Thankfully the NAS is built like a tank, so it keeps going and going.

And yes, because it's RAID5 on an old NAS it takes forever to have to reformat all the drives and make them talk nice to each other. Not to mention the the final product isn't NTFS formatted either. It's something much stranger that I'm not fully convinced about yet.
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