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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Keep TOS, or switch to UnRaid? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently purchased a Terramaster NAS U4-423. I installed some mixed size shucked drives (not recommended, I know) and the raid is syncing. In one day it synced up to about 70%, but has been at a crawl for the last 12 hours taking ~10 minutes per .01%. I have 2 questions I'm hoping fellow Data Hoarders could assist with:

Is this long sync time typical? I'm new to RAID, and I'm wondering if I should just leave it alone and be patient, or if it will actually take the 20 more days the current math suggests. For context I'm using TRAID.
Would I be better off with Unraid? I don't have an issue paying the license fee if the experience would be better. I haven't been impressed with TOS so far. If I did install Unraid, do they have an option to use mixed size discs?

Any insights would be appreciated!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Can't speak to TOS, but my initial unraid array build with 16 + 4 + 4 TB drives took ~18 hours IIRC