Raid initialization what is

Our PERCs are designed to work with certified drives that run our firmware. You can try updating the firmware on the PERC and drives to see if you can find a combination that works well.

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Search instead for. Did you mean:. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Reply 1. Initialization Virtual Drive Initialization After creating a virtual drive VD , you must initialize it so that it can be used by an operating system.

In fast initialization, the firmware writes zeros to the first MB space of the virtual drive. The virtual drive changes to the Optimal state after initialization. Slow initialization: This is a foreground initialization mode. To initialize a VD in this mode, the firmware needs to write zeros to the entire VD.

Ghost Chili. B-C This person is a verified professional. P Sep 26, at UTC. Agreed, I typically let it run overnight. Usually finished on the next day. Thanks IT Ghost for that explanation. I always wondered why it took so long. What OS are you running on this box? Update the Firmware and BSM i believe that's what it's call You might have an issue with the actual drive.

Will be running Server r2, no hyper-v. B Sep 27, at UTC. Be better to keep the spindles spinning together for common purposes. Is this "normal"? Please help! Daniel Dell This person is a verified professional. Brand Representative for Dell. Hello maykelconstantin wrote: Question Server Dell T Raid 1 2 1tb hard driver one hard driver fail i install a new one ctrl r and remote the raid create a new raid 1 then background initialization start two days ago now its finish but i can't access to the driver do i need to do something out to rebuild the hard drive to get the data back?

The data is gone. You created a new RAID 1 array and initialized it. When you did that you wrote over the top of the old data.