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RAID 5 Formatting (Format vs Quick Format)

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by jszivos 2 views

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I understand the differences between Format and Quick Format, but the Format for my RAID 5 (5x 500GB SATA2) is going to take 30 hours to complete at the rate it's formatting. Would the 30 hour wait be useful for a RAID 5 volume? Please reply with your input. Thanks.

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by hal 9000

But in this case it does point to the RAID Controller either being faulty or incorrectly configured.

You may find you get faster responses if you where to ask this as a question as you get e-mails sent to you every time someone answerers your question and different people who look at questions. :)

Col

by jszivos

I am sure everything is working properly. My guess is that the slow format is because I am in Windows using Disk Management, and this is RAID 5 with 5 physical drives which is complex.

Although, thanks for the advice. I am going to let the format complete to rid the RAID of bad sectors.

by hal 9000

Is to mask them up and then when they return they can do much more damage and possibly result in Data Loss.

It's much better to mark bad Sectors so they don't get used again and leave things alone. But if you do have Bad Sectors on the Drives this will be the cause of slow formats.

Col

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