How long is normal to set up new discs as spanned drives?

[nbstl68]

After my recent BI computer rebuild I decided to add 2 new 4TB WD Purples I had available. I opted to set them up as spanned drives to have 8TB as one drive letter.
I am several hours into it and it's sitting at 5% formatted. No big rush. It's just that I've never done this before so just wondering if that's normal. For some reason I was thinking it would be a few minute thing.

 

[VorlonFrog]

Honestly, I have no idea. But if it's anything Microsoft, their ability to estimate (or be concerned with) matters of time is a major failure.

 

[IAmATeaf]

Won’t recovering dynamic drives be difficult if say 1 drive goes down?

id personally leave then as normal drives with individual drive letters. You can then set BI to write some cams to one and some to the other?

 

[nbstl68]

Then, most likely, only the drive with the video I care about most will be the one to crash anyway...

 

[Ri22o]

After my recent BI computer rebuild I decided to add 2 new 4TB WD Purples I had available. I opted to set them up as spanned drives to have 8TB as one drive letter.
I am several hours into it and it's sitting at 5% formatted. No big rush. It's just that I've never done this before so just wondering if that's normal. For some reason I was thinking it would be a few minute thing.
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I don't think it took me too long, and I have more than 2 4tb drives connected.

 

[looktall]

Won’t recovering dynamic drives be difficult if say 1 drive goes down?

There is no redundancy with spanned volumes so when one drive fails the entire volume is lost.

 

[nbstl68]

So I stopped it after several hours and checked the little, "quick format" box and boom, it completed in about 4 seconds. It was trying to do some kind of deep format by default. They were new blank drives so I saw no need for that.
Now, can someone tell me how much storage my 8TB of drives really has and where the rest went to??

Properties shows a tiny bit more than 8TB free in bytes, (8,001,535,606,784)...but in TB (7.27)it looks like I'm missing almost 3/4 of a TB?!
Then disk management shows yet a different available amount of 7,452.01 GB...missing a little over 1/2 TB?!

I'll probably never understand how Windows calculates and allocates.

 

[Ri22o]

So I stopped it after several hours and checked the little, "quick format" box and boom, it completed in about 4 seconds. It was trying to do some kind of deep format by default. They were new blank drives so I saw no need for that.

Now that you say this, I think I did the exact same thing.

I have a mix of drive capacities combined to give 64,007,832,584,192 bytes (58.2 TB).
Disk management shows the volume as 59,611.94 GB.

I have (2) 14TB, (3) 8TB, and (2) 6TB making up my volume.

 

[looktall]

The short answer is bits, bytes and overheads.