December 19, 20187 yr Author Great, thanks! Will my server be accessible for applications such as Plex etc while the new 8TB drive is being formatted and brought online?
December 19, 20187 yr Community Expert 1 minute ago, Matt k said: Great, thanks! Will my server be accessible for applications such as Plex etc while the new 8TB drive is being formatted and brought online? Yes. The formatting phase only takes a couple of minutes. Obviously until the format completes the 8TB drive will not be used for storing any data.
December 19, 20187 yr Author But it looks like the pre-clear process is going to take 11 hours which seems really long. As long as I don't mess everything up I will run mover and start up all the Dockers. THANKS again to everyone that helped me out!
December 19, 20187 yr Community Expert 17 minutes ago, Matt k said: But it looks like the pre-clear process is going to take 11 hours which seems really long. As long as I don't mess everything up I will run mover and start up all the Dockers. THANKS again to everyone that helped me out! the pre-clear involves writing zeroes to every sector on that drive, so that length time is not unusual.
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