Anders Norrbring schreef:

Thanks to you all. Yes, naturally the 2 disks are on separate channels.. ;-) And I actually don't mind the initial sync time, I was just really surprised by the fact that it estimates 47.6 hours to make the sync.. As I mentioned, I've never set up a s/w RAID before, I've always been using h/w before.. Looking back at the old Compaq days with SCSI-2 drives, a RAID-5 with 12 disks very rarely took more than an hour to build, so 48 hours feels like "eternity" with 2 not-that-old disks.

I need to look more into the mdadm utility, I actually just used the defaults to create the array, but of course there are tuning options, I just didn't expect that the result would be this.. ;-) It's really not a big issue for me, this is only a very temporary setup.. I was just surprised...

Anders.

I recently build a raid 5 on 7 70GB sas disks 15000 rpm on a HP Proliant DL380 G5 with a hardware raid. It took me more than 8 hours for the raid to perform it's initital build so i'm not that surprised to have a longer time with a software-raid. On my supermicro at home it took less than 12 hours to sync two sata disks of 320 GB in raid 1. Greets, Erland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org