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									Certify Times Jumped Drastically - Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize				            </title>
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                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/certify-times-jumped-drastically/#post-2309</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 19:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Yes it can be normal for these times to change a lot. The estimate is based on the current read/write speed of the disk, which varies as it progresses.

We cannot always maintain the state...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Yes it can be normal for these times to change a lot. The estimate is based on the current read/write speed of the disk, which varies as it progresses.

We cannot always maintain the state of a disk certify, as the disk has no data on it. So if you remove the disk and it is given a different BSD number on re-insertion, then the certify may not restart where it left off.

This is an area we would like to eventually improve.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/">Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize</category>                        <dc:creator>SoftRAID Support</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Certify Times Jumped Drastically</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/certify-times-jumped-drastically/#post-402</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 15:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I have four 4TB Toshiba N300 NAS drives that are going in a Mediasonic Probox.

One was DOA so it&#039;s being replaced.  i figured i&#039;d go ahead and start the certify process on the other 3 dri...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I have four 4TB Toshiba N300 NAS drives that are going in a Mediasonic Probox.

One was DOA so it's being replaced.  i figured i'd go ahead and start the certify process on the other 3 drives.  well it was as i had expected at ~48 hours and eventually got down to 42 hours remaining.  I let it run overnight and when i checked it this morning it was at 86 hours on each of the drives.

is this normal?

also, i'm running this certify process on my main editing machine.  so i went to cancel (pause) to work on a project and when i came back to resume the certify process, it didn't give me the option to "resume" and it started over at 48 hours.  does the cancel/resume feature work if you turn the box off &amp;/or unplug the usb from the computer?

thank you.]]></content:encoded>
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