Should I keep it going or can I just cancel it and make a quick format? Does it make a difference? You can cancel it, and do a quick format. Todays new disk are already tested for errors/formatted. A full format is equivalent of erasing a disk and running a disk check program. In a perfect world it would be nice to do a full format on all disks as one last check for errors on media before use, but not always practical. You could do a chkdsk later, which is relatively fast, if errors appear then a chkdsk /r , which is exceedingly, agonizingly slow support.microsoft.com/.../302686
Hi, Yesterday night (about 12 hours ago) I reconfigured one of my servers to use RAID 10. It is a Dell R720, with a PERC H710 and eight HHD of 2 TB each. So I build a RAID 10 with 8Tb of storage using GPT. I created a 200Gb partition for Windows OS and I put the second partition (7,3TB) on full format. After 12 hours it is still at 10%. It will propably take 120 hours to complete :emotion-6: Should I keep it going or can I just cancel it and make a quick format? Does it make a difference? This server was running a linux system with RAID5 before... Thanks!
Is full format required on RAID 10?