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Formatting RAID 5?
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:38 am
by Sowser
I have 6 1TB Western Digital Greens hooked up in a RAID 5 array to the six SATA inputs of an ASUS P6T Deluxe. After finally getting the MoBo to start-up using the SAS input as a SAT device for my SSD where I have Vista Ultimate 64 Bit I went into the drives section of computer managment in order to format the array. The array is formatting at the rate of about 1% an hour so at that rate won't be done until Tuesday. Is that normal?
Re: Formatting RAID 5?
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:01 am
by Skippman
Depending on the rate of your controller.... It might be. Remember, the array has to calculate parity for every block on the set. Once the array is formatted, you should no longer have this problem.
Re: Formatting RAID 5?
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:11 am
by bubba
Yup, took me better part of a day to format 4x 640GB drives in my NAS.
Formatting a raid is painful to watch.
Re: Formatting RAID 5?
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:44 pm
by Sowser
Just finished formatting my six 1TB disks, RAID 5 array last night around 9 PM. Now I've got over 5 trillion bytes to fill!
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Re: Formatting RAID 5?
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:45 am
by DMB2000uk
Daymn. Lets hope you never break that array and need to re-construct it!
Run any sort of speed tests on it yet?
Dan
Re: Formatting RAID 5?
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:27 pm
by Sowser
What would you suggest? I have both the RAID5 array and a G.Skill Titan SSD.
Re: Formatting RAID 5?
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 3:27 am
by DMB2000uk
HD TUNE
HD TACH
PC MARK (any) HDD Suite
Dan