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									Raid 5 Initialization Times??? - Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize				            </title>
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                        <title>Raid 5 Initialization Times???</title>
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                        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2018 17:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Generally, no more than 30 seconds, 2 minutes (per disk) on some SSD&#039;s when TRIM is enabled.

OS X is what creates the file system. Some component in OS X must have failed or not returned....]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Generally, no more than 30 seconds, 2 minutes (per disk) on some SSD's when TRIM is enabled.

OS X is what creates the file system. Some component in OS X must have failed or not returned.

Delete the volume, restart, and try again.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Raid 5 Initialization Times???</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/raid-5-initialization-times/#post-533</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2018 16:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I am trying to build a 4x HDD Raid 5.
Using 4x 8TB HGST 7280 HDD, and an Akitio Thunder3 Quad X, (Thunderbolt 3 4 bay enclosure) 

32TB of HDD to create 24TB of Raid 5.

I have left the...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I am trying to build a 4x HDD Raid 5.
Using 4x 8TB HGST 7280 HDD, and an Akitio Thunder3 Quad X, (Thunderbolt 3 4 bay enclosure) 

32TB of HDD to create 24TB of Raid 5.

I have left the initialization process continue for over 10hours, and there is no progress indication. I am unable to quit SoftRaid.

What the heck?!

Most Raid 5 initializations you can start using the Volume right away, maybe with some performance loss, but at least you can see progress or use the volume.

Activity Monitor shows 300MB/sec of Read, and almost zero Write

So far not impressed with SoftRaid.

Anybody have any idea how long this should take?

Sep 23 00:08:45 - SoftRAID Application: Creating the RAID 5 volume named "24TB_Raid5" of size 21.8 TB with the following disks: disk4, SoftRAID ID: 07C347680917CC80, SATA bus 0, id 1 (Thunderbolt), disk3, SoftRAID ID: 07C347680A7AB040, SATA bus 0, id 2 (Thunderbolt), disk5, SoftRAID ID: 07C34768182A4E00, SATA bus 0, id 3 (Thunderbolt), disk2, SoftRAID ID: 07C347680A12AF40, SATA bus 0, id 4 (Thunderbolt).]]></content:encoded>
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