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How long clear usually takes on 18TB?

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Wondering how long. Slapped a brand new HGST 550 in there and the clear has been going for 16 hours now. 

Edited by opentoe

My 14tb takes a little more than 24 60 hours, I think.

 

####################################################################################################
#                              Unraid Server Preclear of disk YYYYYYYY                             #
#                            Cycle 1 of 3, partition start on sector 64.                           #
#                                                                                                  #
#   Step 1 of 5 - Pre-read verification:                  [19:17:00 @ 201 MB/s] SUCCESS            #
#   Step 2 of 5 - Zeroing the disk:                       [20:58:51 @ 185 MB/s] SUCCESS            #
#   Step 3 of 5 - Writing Unraid's Preclear signature:                          SUCCESS            #
#   Step 4 of 5 - Verifying Unraid's Preclear signature:                        SUCCESS            #
#   Step 5 of 5 - Post-Read in progress: (68% Done)                                                #
#                                                                                                  #
#   ** Time elapsed: 11:26:42 | Current speed: 192 MB/s | Average speed: 233 MB/s                  #
#                                                                                                  #
####################################################################################################
#       Cycle elapsed time: 50:01:45 | Total elapsed time: 50:01:46                                #
####################################################################################################

####################################################################################################
#   S.M.A.R.T. Status (device type: default)                                                       #
#                                                                                                  #
#   ATTRIBUTE                   INITIAL STATUS                                                     #
#   Reallocated_Sector_Ct       0       -                                                          #
#   Power_On_Hours              21      -                                                          #
#   Reported_Uncorrect          0       -                                                          #
#   Airflow_Temperature_Cel     34      -                                                          #
#   Current_Pending_Sector      0       -                                                          #
#   Offline_Uncorrectable       0       -                                                          #
#   UDMA_CRC_Error_Count        0       -                                                          #
#                                                                                                  #
#                                                                                                  #
####################################################################################################
#   SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED                                       #
####################################################################################################

 

Edited by whipdancer

About 52 hours for me, but I wasn't quite getting full speed out of it, note it also took about 82 hours when done through an external enclosure :/

 

Once you finish step 1, the overall preclear time is approx. 3 times that (steps 1,2,5 all take about the same time).

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Thanks for the replies. I was around those times. I never dealt with the larger drives yet, so I was just getting nervous.

  • 8 months later...

It took me ~70 hours to preclear my 18tb Ultrastar DC HC550

 

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  • 2 weeks later...

for my second identical disk it took me almost the same time

 

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  • 4 weeks later...

A shucked 18tb WD Elements took almost 82 hours

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Yeah, that seems about right.  I never had to clear a drive that large, but the 183 MB/s seems to be a very good average speed.

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