Raid 6 Initializing Time

[Jonezy Lothos]

Hi all. I started "initializing" my raid 6 array three days ago using the "MegaRAID Storage Manager" and it is at 50%. is this normal?

 

Jones

 

Pertinent info:

 Asus Maximus VIII Hero

i7-6700k

32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum

Samsung 850 EVO 500BG

LSI 9260-8i

5x WD red 4TB HDD (for the RAID array)

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Its probably rewriting over the data. Normally you just set it to quick formal and its done in 5 seconds

[Jonezy Lothos]

these are all new HDD

[scottyseng]

1 hour ago, Jonezy Lothos said:

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My RAID6 array of four 4TB Reds and it took about 7.5 days to create. It's normal. I have the same LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i.

 

Whatever you do, pray the power doesn't go out (You have to start over) and do not turn off the PC.

 

Also, I hope you tested each drive (Using WD Lifeguard diagnostics) to make sure it wasn't DOA / damanged (happens) before making the array.

 

Oh right, I remembered, my new six 4TB Red array took only 7 hours because I found a setting in MegaRAID Storage Manager that lets you decide how much of the RAID card is allowed to be used for the initialization. By default, the value was 10% I think. If you change this value to 100% (Since you have no other arrays anyway), the initialization time should drop quite a bit.

[Jonezy Lothos]

Scottyseng.

 

I checked the HDD using the WD Lifeguard Diagnostic

 

Set the initialization to 100% and it finished overnight. 

 

Thanks for the help!

 

Jones

[scottyseng]

10 hours ago, Jonezy Lothos said:

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Glad it helped. Yeah, I remember I was wondering why it took so long with my first array...I actually read the manual and found that setting and felt stupid. haha.