Question Raid controller help

[00GhostConn]

Hello, I recently setup a raid 5 using a highpoint 2720 8 port controller with 7 WD red 4tb drives. I seem to have the drive working correctly in windows 10. I'm afraid to start transfering data to the array because it's not initilized?. I have never dealt with a raid 5 configuration before only raid 0. My question is how long dose it take to initialize? In the highpoint raid manager it shows the status as 0%. Am I safe to transfer data or should I wait until it finishes? If so how long would this take it's been at 0% for well over 2 hours

 

[popatim]

If you've gone thru the 'days' of initialization in the Highpoints bios or web interface, the Windows partitioning/formatting part will be fast.

 

[00GhostConn]

If you've gone thru the 'days' of initialization in the Highpoints bios or web interface, the Windows partitioning/formatting part will be fast.

Thanks for the reply. I already formatted the drive as NTFS and set it as gpt. The drive is recognized in windows and is functional. I have the initilization set as (background). After nearly 12 hours it's at 13%. I wanted to start transfering over some files however I'm unsure if it's safe to do so while it's preforming the initilization. I never knew it would take so long to setup wow...