How is the disk formatting doing? ... IIRC (If I Remember Correctly) NTFS takes an unreasonably long time to format. That is why M$ installations normally give a 'quick format' where the formatting is done on demand (and completed as a background task) so installations aren't ground to a halt when a new drive must be formatted.
In trying to find some facts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS has a fairly interesting on NTFS, but I am sure it is not complete Other articles talk about connection problems. If you can read the SMART data on the drives, it might show some issues (to many bad blocks, etc). One of the articles talked about NTFS doing a low level test (writing zero's, the One's, doing read after write testing, etc) but that may not be totally so. No one seemed to have a 'silver bullet' solution. Most issues were not well resolved without extended time. If these are 'repurposed drives' checking the SMART data might be a good idea anyway. http://www.pcworld.com/article/226663/10_best_free_hard_drive_utilities.html references using the free version of HDTUNE or Smartpass's HDCHECKUP. Even the W$ command line tool of 'smartctl' ( smartctl -a sde -- or whatever). They also mention some 'real time SMART' tools that do continuous monitoring for low $. ><> ... Jack Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I'm asking about "the other guys." Adding a bunch of space to a > Windows 7 Pro system - like 2.8TB. Started the Administrative Tasks / > Storage / Disk Management / Simple File System (NTFS) yesterday about 10AM > and it now shows 9% complete... > > Okay, okay, okay, so this shoulda been NAS or SAN. Trying to Keep It Short > and Simple. > > Howard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
