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The following table shows an estimate time for Slow Initialization.
Physical drive capacity Time required for Slow Initialization
300 GB (SAS 2.5 HDD) about 40 minutes
900 GB (SAS 2.5 HDD) about 110 minutes
1.8 TB (SAS 2.5 HDD) About 220 minutes
400 GB (SAS 2.5 SSD) about 20 minutes
800 GB (SAS 2.5 SSD) About 40 minutes
Note:
• Time required for initialization varies depending on the single disk
capacity regardless of the RAID level or disk array capacity.
•
Since Slow Initialization rewrites 0, zero, into physical drives one after
another, contents of physical drives have been rewritten if you stop
the initialization at some point.
• Progress will not be updated on the state of this window, go on to
step 10.
10. press Esc on the window displayed in step 9.
11. Virtual Drive Management window appears.
Select a virtual drive to check the progress, and press Enter
.
12. Virtual drive information appears.
Check the item Progress has disappeared.
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