Are you comparing against the same hardware as before? Also, have you tried though the GUI for comparison?
For the record,i never format hd volumes without the quick format option. Then I run CHKDSK on it at my leisure. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Oct 21, 2010 8:13 AM, "Ziots, Edward" <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone seen in Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition slow format times, > via the command line>? > > > > 3 New HP DL 380 G6 servers, rebuilt from scratch with firmware 9.0x and > SPAQ 8.50 and patched to the latest patches, seems like it takes forever > to format a simple 139GB LUN ( RAID 1+0) > > > > It wasn't this long in Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise accordingly. > > > > Note: The partitions are write aligned 64K and partitioned at 64K due to > SQL running on the systems. > > > > Any ideas? > > Z > > > > Edward E. Ziots > > CISSP, Network +, Security + > > Network Engineer > > Lifespan Organization > > Email:[email protected] <email%[email protected]> > > Cell:401-639-3505 > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
