Raid 5 initialization how long

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Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. Latest Solutions. Can't find what you're looking for? You can post your question in our community. Sign up now. I would say as long as the HDD activity lights are still flashing like mad, let it be. If it truly is hung, you can always do a hard reset and start over. No big deal. Thanks, from times I have run it before it took overnight!

I rebooted and it seems to be working as I expected now. It looks like I can go home and come back to the office tomorrow to install Server R2. John - The OS. Sam had recommended that I use RAID 10 for the whole thing too, but I spent hours trying to trick the system into letting me do it and searching Google for tips. Any reason not to? Should take about an hour to 2 hours. I never made it to the office yesterday, so I can't say how long it takes.

You can also set the rebuild rate and other options which can help if you have a failed RAID. A database having a set of spindles, a file server's iscsi lun as a set of spindles, the hypervisor on a set of spindles.

I have about 13 GB hard drives on a Raid 2 system, how long will that be? I have been able to turn off the alarm after resetting the bios? Do you have to wait for the the initialization to finish before you can go ahead and start installing the Hypervisor?

Hi i have same question. Is it required for esxi install to wait until the Back Init process is complete? Question Server Dell T Raid 1 2 1tb hard driver one hard driver fail i install a new one ctrl r and remote the raid create a new raid 1 then background initialization start two days ago now its finish but i can't access to the driver do i need to do something out to rebuild the hard drive to get the data back?

To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Lenovo 53, Followers - Follow Mentions Products. New Member. The array will be GB. The question I have is how long will the initialization take? I was advised that it would take 10 to 15 minutes per gig.

So that equates to about 6 to 9 days for the drives to initialize. Sounds crazy to me. Anyway, it's been 11 days and the drives are still not ready. Could the initialization have timed out? There is no tool to monitor status. I'm wondering if I should let it continue or kill the process and start over.