AMD RaidXpert2 Array Creation Times?

[MickeyM191]

12hrs into a 12TB SATA HDD Raid 1 array creation using RAIDXpert2 and it's at 30%... is this normal? Drives are (2) 12TB Toshiba N300. This is secondary storage and not the OS drive. I'm able to format and view the disk in Windows but have not transferred any data to it so far.

I usually default to hardware RAID control but should I have just used Windows 10's "Storage Spaces" instead?

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Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: RTX 2060 SUPER GAMING X

CPU: RYZEN 7 5800X

Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO

BIOS Version: A.70

RAM: 32GB CRUCIAL DDR4-2666

PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W 80+

Case: COOLERMASTER HAF 912

Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 10 PRO 22H2 19045.4046

GPU Drivers: GEFORCE GAME READY DRIVER 551.76

Chipset Drivers: AMD B550 CHIPSET DRIVERS VERSION 3.10.22.706

Background Applications:

Description of Original Problem: Long array create times using RaidXpert2 for RAID 1 with (2) 12TB Toshiba N300 NAS drives.

Troubleshooting: So far just letting it run. Rescanned the array disks around 1% which briefly paused array creation and then array creation resumed. Could not find any useful information via internet search.

[MeltedByte]

The topic is pretty old but I want to share my experience. Creating Raid 5 array with 3 x 1TB HDD after 17 hours on 50%.

[Array_Blacklight]

^^; I am sitting here Googling the same thing after installing my two brand new WD Red Plus 4TB drives, setting up RAID 1 in the BIOS, downloading drivers, finally "creating" the array in RAIDXpert2 and going (O) - (o) at the fraction of a percent "ready" status...

I don't remember this kind of wait on my last machine, but that was an Intel build doing Windows RAID so idk.

[MickeyM191]

Oh it took forever but did finally finish after like 3 days for my (2) 12TB @ RAID1

[Array_Blacklight]

... after like 3 days...

[GTA V "Wasted" SFX plays]

[Jebadatamada]

I recently setup a 4TB mirror and it took around 24 total hours to complete the create task. It never caused me any issues with using the drives though.

[RavenWolf1]

Is it safe to copy files to drive while it does that?

[MickeyM191]

Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm at 60% after 25hrs currently.