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Post by rich5200 on Feb 10, 2007 11:06:18 GMT 7
I just got my 5200 and put in 5x750 seagate drives in. I set them in raid 5 with a 1024 stripe size (large video files mostly). I know it will take some time to build, but it has been at 0.0% for 2 hours. There is plenty of disk activity and the cpu load is 100%
The info page shows:
Remaining Time 109899.2min
Any ideas?
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Post by drewpuppy on Feb 10, 2007 16:01:37 GMT 7
I have the same and I had to leave it running overnight. I can't remember how long it took exactly, but it was a long time! Good luck.
Andrew.
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Post by rich5200 on Feb 11, 2007 3:35:13 GMT 7
It's working fine now. I thought I might have had a bad disk or something so I did a quick JBOD setup and copied some files around, then set it back up for raid 5 overnight. It was doing about 8-9% complete/hour until I started moving files on it.
Pretty sad to see 3.75Tb of drives turn into 2.5TB of space. I should have waited to get the terabyte drives later this summer.
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Post by drewpuppy on Feb 14, 2007 2:26:27 GMT 7
Yes, it is sad. I set mine up as RAID-6 and watched it shrink even more!  Good to see you're up and running. |
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Post by twylie on Feb 16, 2007 23:55:55 GMT 7
For reference, I started my array creation last night at 8:30pm and it finished format and array creation at 10:05 the next morning.
5 * Seagate 7200.10 750GB drives in RAID5
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