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The biggest problem that I have with adding big drives to my NAS is the amount of prep work. badblocks takes fucking forever against bigger drives. It was like,
by Hamuko 3y ago
The biggest problem that I have with adding big drives to my NAS is the amount of prep work. badblocks takes fucking forever against bigger drives. It was like, 5 days to run three passes of badblocks against a 12 TB drive or something?
- bombcar 3y agoIs it even worth running something like badblocks before adding drives anymore? I guess if you want to be absolutely sure it's "clean" but most drives do intelligent remapping internally anyway, so "add and scrub afterwards" may be the way to go.
- Hamuko 3y agoI feel like it's less of a bother to diagnose if the drive needs to be returned immediately and not after you've already slapped it into your RAID.