# Storj solution for HDD 100% during scan pieces

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/storj-solution-for-hdd-100-during-scan-pieces/11862>\
**Category:** Node Operators\
**Tags:** hardware\
**Created:** [February 18, 2021, 10:11am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/storj-solution-for-hdd-100-during-scan-pieces/11862 "2021-02-18T10:11:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Toyoo](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/toyoo/32/1126_2.png) [@Toyoo](https://forum.storj.io/u/Toyoo)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/storj-solution-for-hdd-100-during-scan-pieces/11862/61 "2022-11-13T16:08:00Z")

</div>

As far as I understand, the scan at startup is just a safety check to avoid running out of disk space in case the node has wrong statistics about stored content.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![TheMightyGreek](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/themightygreek/32/6081_2.png) [@TheMightyGreek](https://forum.storj.io/u/TheMightyGreek)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/storj-solution-for-hdd-100-during-scan-pieces/11862/62 "2022-11-15T17:36:01Z")

</div>

It happened to me, I accidentally deleted the databases of a node that had the scan disabled. After restarting it it started accepting uploads since it didn’t know how much data it had stored (databases missing). I restarted it once with the scan enabled and everything went back to normal.

Would have been a different story hadn’t I caught it pretty early…

[Previous page](https://forum.storj.io/t/storj-solution-for-hdd-100-during-scan-pieces/11862.md?page=3)