Well, I thought I was done with the disk scrubbing, but I ran into a snag. Drive Cleanser 6 managed to clean the two partitions that were smaller than 2 TB, but reported space on the 5.45 TB partition as 1.46 TB. I called Acronis tech support, and they said that DC6 wasn’t … [Read more...]
A new server, part 2
When Dell set up the new computer, they split the mirrored solid-state disk into to approximately equal partitions of about 45 GB each. I eliminated the data partition and expanded the OS partition to take up all the available space. I did another bit of housekeeping that can … [Read more...]
Drobo rebuild time
In preparation for shutting down the old file server, I checked the status of the Drobo rebuild of the array. It finished overnight last night. That means that it took two weeks to rebuild a 5.44 TB (net) four-disk array with 4.21 TB of data on it. Ridiculous. … [Read more...]
A new server
I wrote recently about abandoning Drobo in favor of Synology. I now have three Synology boxes running: a 1511+ from before, and two new ones, an 1812+ and an 1512+ (the current version of the 1511+). I’ve got 3 TB drives in the 8 bay box and one of the 5-bay ones, and 2TB drives … [Read more...]
Drobo — the end of the road
Strike one A couple of weeks ago I swapped out the disk pack on my USB-connected Drobo. The new pack had last been written before I got my Dell T7500 workstation, and thus had none of the image files from that computer. I created a directory, and told it to back up all of the … [Read more...]
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