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How long does it take to initialize a RAID1 array?
Hi Everyone,
I have a Dell R210 with a PERC H200. I've thrown in a couple of Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB drives. The server is taking ages to initialize a RAID1 array. It's been going for about 12 hours and only 40% complete.
Is this correct? The system is still useable, just maybe disk performance is degraded a bit
Many Thanks
Jonathan
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Posted June 23rd, 2010 10:00
Personally I rarely use SATA drives in servers....
From my experience SATA drive require many times the amount of time to inilailize then SAS drives. Eg for a 136 Gig SAS array, SAS takes under 5-15 minutes, same size in SATA might take a couple hours. 12 hours for 40% could be possible.