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>> It would be interesting to know whether hardware RAID would behave any |
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>> differently or allow the sync to perform in the background. I have |
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>> only 1.5TB in RAID5 across 4 x 500gb drives at present; IIRC the |
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>> expansion from 3 x drives took some hours, but I can't recall the |
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>> initial setup. |
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LSI, 3ware and Areca hardware raid controllers are capable of doing a |
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background init but their performance is impacted, I can't speak on |
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other controllers as I haven't used them before. I've built many |
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RAID6 arrays with all three controllers - 8x 1TB and 8x 1.5TB and I'll |
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usually start a foreground init and let them run overnight because it |
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does take a long time. Also, RAID10 is much faster to get up and |
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running because it doesn't have to calculate parity. |
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Kyle |
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