I am using the "free" time I have during the Covid-19 stay-at-home isolation to do some cleanup and replace (upgrade) some drives on my WHS 2011 server. So in checking the scanner tab in the dashboard all disks are reported as having no issues. But when I click on individual drives, the messages below say:
- surface was checked/defect free as of 1/17/2017 for most disks - but some date back to November or December of 2016
- all of the known file systems checked/healthy
- on disk SMART not predicting any failures (well for the 4 drives in the server BOX, the 4 drives in the external box (RocketRaid 642L SATA COntroller) don't report anything for SMART or temperature. I seem to recall reading that was normal?
So I started scanning about 20 minutes ago. My 250GB boot drive is roughly half done and a 4TB in the external box is 3% done. I just read another message that said a 4 TB drive will take 16 hours? Yikes.
But - why hasn't the Scanner done anything since Dec 2016/Jan 2017? I checked my settings and don't see anything that would stop auto scanning. The server runs 24/7 - doesn't sleep (something I need to look into). So is something not working properly or do I need to change some settings somewhere?
Let me know if you need any specifics on settings or if there are log files somewhere that might help figure this out.
Stay Safe & thanks
UPDATE: Just checked back and the boot drive completed - no issues. The 4TB is now at 5% done - but the dashboard screen seems to be frozen? Doesn't say "Not Responding" at the top - but the % are not changing and the "Performance" graph isn't changing. PC isn't locked up - so going to let it sit. Is this normal behaviour?
Should I be stopping any services or doing anything to the server so this will run unimpeded/faster?
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puulima
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I am using the "free" time I have during the Covid-19 stay-at-home isolation to do some cleanup and replace (upgrade) some drives on my WHS 2011 server. So in checking the scanner tab in the dashboard all disks are reported as having no issues. But when I click on individual drives, the messages below say:
- surface was checked/defect free as of 1/17/2017 for most disks - but some date back to November or December of 2016
- all of the known file systems checked/healthy
- on disk SMART not predicting any failures (well for the 4 drives in the server BOX, the 4 drives in the external box (RocketRaid 642L SATA COntroller) don't report anything for SMART or temperature. I seem to recall reading that was normal?
So I started scanning about 20 minutes ago. My 250GB boot drive is roughly half done and a 4TB in the external box is 3% done. I just read another message that said a 4 TB drive will take 16 hours? Yikes.
But - why hasn't the Scanner done anything since Dec 2016/Jan 2017? I checked my settings and don't see anything that would stop auto scanning. The server runs 24/7 - doesn't sleep (something I need to look into). So is something not working properly or do I need to change some settings somewhere?
Let me know if you need any specifics on settings or if there are log files somewhere that might help figure this out.
Stay Safe & thanks
UPDATE: Just checked back and the boot drive completed - no issues. The 4TB is now at 5% done - but the dashboard screen seems to be frozen? Doesn't say "Not Responding" at the top - but the % are not changing and the "Performance" graph isn't changing. PC isn't locked up - so going to let it sit. Is this normal behaviour?
Should I be stopping any services or doing anything to the server so this will run unimpeded/faster?
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