On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Dylan Distasio <interzone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I actually did a similar setup recently, and it was very similar timing. I'm not sure if it should have been faster/slower, but I can confirm I saw the same thing. Dave -- 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
