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Hi, As most of us I'm doing pre-clear rarely. I just run docker app binhex-preclear on new 8 TB. It took 53 hours to finish. Afterwards I added the disk to array. Disk didn't show up nicely as I expected, instead it just disappear from Unassigned devices list and from the list of devices ready to be added to the array (just like the addition was successful). So I did reset before spinning up the array. Now the disk is showing up on the array devices list. That's good, I have an improvement. I started an array and instead of having disk up and running I can see, he is now doing some "Write" operations and for a short moment I saw info about pre-clearing. In the array the status is "unassigned". Anyone knows what is happening? I really didn't want to wait two more days for disk to be cleared again... Also I don't understand why there is no clear status info what is happening. Bad app design. If pre-clearing has been run for the second time - is there a way to stop it since it is not really needed and mark disk so it can be included into the array? I'm running Unraid 6.12.4 [EDIT] ok - an update - I can now see following info: "PARITY Disk-Clear in progress... Completed: 13.7 %.". So: - seems like what is happening is "PARITY Disk-Clear in progress" and - progress is 13.7 % 13.7% is too fast for pre-clearing 8 TB, so this is something different I guess. Maybe some additional operation on parity drive as written in status info. Will keep you updated [EDIT 2] so... all done... array++ with 8TB. Writes were going to new disk most probably due to some kind of sync with parity drive. Looks like this is a part of normal array expansion process. Maybe one sentence of explanation in binhex-preclear would be good to have. BR AltCtrlDel