August 29, 201114 yr Hey all. Getting closer. Thanks for all the help thus far. So I pre-cleared my disks, set a parity drive and started to format... the guide says it should only take a few minutes... but I'm seeing this: Started Parity-Sync in progress. WARNING: canceling Parity-Sync will leave the array unprotected! Total size: 1,953,514,552 KB Current position: 151,729,240 (7.7%) Estimated speed: 29,220 KB/sec Estimated finish: 1027.6 minutes There's no data on the drive at the moment. Should it take that long to sync and format? Just curious if it's normal. Thanks.
August 29, 201114 yr yes and no... The format is complete, it is calculating parity now. it would be 2-3 times faster if you had newer hardware. As I recall, you have some older hardware and IDE drives on PCI cards. As it finishes up the smaller, slower drives, the speed will pick up. (IE. if your IDE drive is 120Gig. at 121gig it will speed up and so on for each drive) I don't think it will really take 17 hours. and if it does, at least you know the data is protected when it's done.
August 30, 201114 yr Author Ok. Just wanted to be sure. Thank you. It's a pair of 2TB drives. One of which is parity, so no surprise on the speed. I really hope this old hardware doesn't have to last me too long.
August 30, 201114 yr that is just 2x 2TB drives? Ok i thought you had some IDE drives on that build also Sata1 connections? refresh my memory on your build specs then.
August 30, 201114 yr Author MOBO - ASUS P4P800-E (http://ca.asus.com/en/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_478/P4P800E_Deluxe/) CASE - Coolermaster Centurion 5 (http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=21) PROCESSOR - Honestly can't remember off the top of my head. Was not dual-core. 3.06Ghz. Intel (obviously) RAM - 2GB Kingston HARD DRIVES - 2x2TB WD Caviar Green 1x1.5TB WD Caviar Green (One WDC_WD20EARS and one WDC_WD20EADS [32MB vs 64MB cache]). It has a 300GB Samsung in there, but I haven't assigned it as I think I'll just rip it out and put in a 1.5TB that I have in my main HTPC after I move the data over from it to the unRAID system. Both drives are on the southbridge connection (not the RAID) and are SATA1. EDIT: Totally off-topic, but does a cache drive count towards the drive limit of the free version? I'm planning to upgrade sometime in november/december.
August 30, 201114 yr EDIT: Totally off-topic, but does a cache drive count towards the drive limit of the free version? I'm planning to upgrade sometime in november/december. Free version does not have the cache drive option as i recall. i cant tell, it looks like your sata controller is on the PCI bus on the mobo, it will be slowish.
August 30, 201114 yr Author EDIT: Totally off-topic, but does a cache drive count towards the drive limit of the free version? I'm planning to upgrade sometime in november/december. Free version does not have the cache drive option as i recall. Well then, that takes care of that. i cant tell, it looks like your sata controller is on the PCI bus on the mobo, it will be slowish. Would I be better off moving them over to the Promise 20378 RAID controller? If so, is that difficult to do (configuration wise, not physically)?
August 30, 201114 yr The configuration is easy. You may have to reassign the disks. Loading for rotational media: PCI: 1 disk (for all slots), PCIeX1: 2 disks, PCIeX4: 8 disks, PCIeX16: 32 disks. Double loading for PCIe 2.0. SATA I or above makes no difference.
August 30, 201114 yr Author It works! IT REALLY WORKS! I'm so impressed. Moving my media over now. Thanks for all the help, guys! Now I need to learn about what I've actually made.
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