How Long Does a Disk Preclear in Unraid Take for 12TB of Data?

Dec 4th, 2023

I’m upgrading my 4TB drives in the NAS to 12TB drives. “Let’s be clever,” I thought (foreshadowing), “and do two things in parallel!” So installing the next drive into the disk array of my Unraid NAS, I let Unraid do these tasks: Does that speed things up, though? No, not at all, because Preclearing a disk takes 3x as long: Around 21 hours for each step that checks every nook and cranny of the HDD.

IPv6NAT in Unraid's Docker Containers Behind a Reverse Proxy to Make Outgoing IPv6 Requests Work

Feb 16th, 2021

This tip is a bit out of context, but will make sense once I write more about the NAS I did set up. The NAS I have runs Unraid. It’s a Slackware-based Linux operating system that provides a bit of redundancy/recovery from drive failures without the RAID setup overhead and performance penalties. More details will follow later.