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4TB - 6TB disks and Scanner - Massively long scans


VhyVenom

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It seems that the Scanner scans take a MASSIVE time for 4-6TB disks. A 6TB disks appears to take 15 HOURS, and it will only do 1 at a time (since they are on the same controller).

 

Any way to "speed it up" or enabling more than one disk scan per controller (say 2 disks)? Otherwise it means the first week of the month is spent Surface scanning?

 

Also stats - can it show how long the scan took? should be an easy add.

 

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Well, you can tell it to scan multiple disks on the same controller at the same time. Just open StableBit Scanner, click on "Settings" and then "Scanner settings". Head over to the "Throttling" tab, and un-check the "Do not interfere with other disks on the same controller". 

 

Also, un-checking the "scan with background IO" will speed up the process, but can adversely affect performance on the system.

 

 

As will changing the disk activity sensitivity. Or disabling it altogether.

 

However, if you leave it as is... each disk is checked independently for when it needs to be scanned. This means that future scans will automatically be staggered out.

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