Haven't created a raid 10 set on that controller, but a raid 1 is almost instantaneous.
From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RAID array rebuild Q I have a client that I get to flatten and rebuild an OS (an already-mentioned-here move from 64-bit 2008 to 2008 R2), as part of the change I am going -on the same server- from a 3-disk RAID5 setup to a 4-disk dual RAID1 setup (or RAID10, can't decide, but almost the same thing). My question is this - should I expect it to take long to reconfigure the disks and be able to start loading the OS? Mainly I'm wondering if there's a long "please wait while building array" step once I configure the RAID arrays in the system setup (in this case, Dell PERC 6/I, four 450GB SAS drives on a Dell T605 tower). David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
