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Title: How long it could take to create RAID 5
Post by: Lapa on January 05, 2010, 11:49:10 PM
Hello people.

I've got new DNS-343 FW 1.03
4 x 1.5 TB drives

Initialization process had been performed smoothly.
8 hours ago formatting began and still there is unchanged statement on the LED: "Formatting Volume_1 ... 1%"

Is it ok ?
Title: Re: How long it could take to create RAID 5
Post by: hilaireg on January 06, 2010, 12:23:15 PM
Something is up ... you should have seen the % increment.  Did you confirm the HDD models you purchased are/were compatible with the DNS?

HTH,
Title: Re: How long it could take to create RAID 5
Post by: Lapa on January 06, 2010, 05:27:33 PM
Quote from: hilaireg on January 06, 2010, 12:23:15 PM
Something is up ... you should have seen the % increment.  Did you confirm the HDD models you purchased are/were compatible with the DNS?

HTH,

WD Caviar Green 1.5 TB SATA Hard Drives

I believe my WD drives are compatible. At least I managed to create JBOD before RAID 5. I waited for JBOD creation for a couple of hours. BTW I saw the same "Formatting Volume_1 ... 1%" without any increment when JBOD was building.

At this point about 26 hours had passed since I started RAID 5 creation.
Title: Re: How long it could take to create RAID 5
Post by: hilaireg on January 07, 2010, 01:20:08 PM
May as well restart the unit.  I suspect you may need to remove all of the partitions from each HDD via a computer as there isn't a partition removal utility in the DNS.

I suggest resetting the unit to defaults (factory); afterwards disable all HDD related power management (sleep) functions and trying to reformat the HDD's in RAID5 once again.

HTH,