Got my new shiny UNRAID server built. Assigned the first HDD to the array, and have setup a share and am ready to start moving files to it, but i had to tell it to format the drive, (DUH), the doesn't seem to be any progress display on that in the GUI so how long before I've got the whole capacity available?

 

If i end up with any other questions whilst doing this they'll likely end up here too.

Edited November 18, 20205 yr by Carl_Bar

Format doesn't take very long, several minutes since it only needs to write some filesystem metadata. If you have valid parity and add a disk to a new slot it will have to clear the disk so parity remains valid. That will take much longer.