The following table shows an estimate time for Full Initialization.
Physical drive capacity Time required for Full Initialization
SATA HDD 500 GB 170 hours
SATA HDD 1TB 340 hours
Note: Since Full Initialization rewrites 0, zero, into physical drives one
after another, contents of physical drives have been rewritten if you stop
Full Initialization at some point. When you need to stop initialization,
follow the steps shown in To stop initialization on page 6-35.
14. When restoring the OS with ServerConductor/Deployment Manager after
configuring and initializing a virtual drive, execute Setting virtual drives
on page 6-53.
To stop initialization
This subsection describes how to stop initialization.
1. Execute step 1 and step 2 shown in Full initialization procedure on page
6-31 to show Select Virtual Drive Operations window. Then, select Select
Virtual Drive and press Enter.
LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility for disk arrays
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