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My oh my, it certainly does take some time to construct a 3TB RAID5 array from scratch..

Seriously?
Or do you mean the whole system rather than just the array?



Just the array -- it does it in the background, of course, but the initial sync involves rewriting the entire contents of the entire space of the entire array. That takes a while with 3TB of disk space.

But I'm redoing it again now -- my experiment didn't pan out, and smaller physical RAID partitions will make testing failure modes a lot less time consuming later on.

So this time, the RAID5 will be only 120GB instead of 3TB.
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It does take a while for the background sync to finish - but you can use the array as normal in the meantime.

Exactly!