Dave Parker
Senior Member
Recently purchased a Qnap TS-431 and 4 new Western Digital 3TB red drives. Last night I set it up in a RAID 5 configuration which seemed to be the best option for storage capacity and redundancy in case of a drive failure. Question is dashboard says optimizing and it is at 60%. Exactly what is being optimized and why is it tacking forever. Been over 16 hours. Drives are new and there is nothing on them. Very much a novice at networking and could write all I know about NAS and RAID on a small post-it note in large print. I know there is much knowledge here at SNB. Any advice would be appreciated.