I wanted to check to see if anyone could provide a rough estimate of how long a RAID 5 initial build should take under mdadm. I am creating a RAID 5 array with 5x1TB Western Digital Black 7200RPM SATA drives on the following system: Ubuntu 8.10 / ext3 filesystem on array and OS drive 1 gig of PC3200 RAM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Nforce4 motherboard I am getting a minimum speed of approximately 14000K/sec with an estimated finish time of roughly 19 hrs from now. Is this a reasonable speed for creating a RAID 5 array with mdadm? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
