Chapter 4 Process Time (Estimated); Volume Formatting Time; Table 4.1 Volume Formatting Time (Disk) - Fujitsu ETERNUS DX600 S3 Basic Operation Manual

Chapter 4
Process Time (Estimated)
This chapter explains the estimated time required for volume formatting and for rebuild/copyback for each
RAID level configuration.
4.1

Volume Formatting Time

The following table shows the time required for the volume formatting process (when the volume capacity is
100GB).

Table 4.1 Volume Formatting Time (Disk)

RAID level
RAID1
RAID1+0
RAID5
RAID5+0
RAID6
*1: The value shows the time required for volume formatting when the volume capacity is 100GB and there
is no server I/O. The time that is required depends on the type and configuration of the disk.
FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX500 S3/DX600 S3 Disk storage system Operation Guide (Basic)
Volume formatting time (*1)
Number of disks
2.5" SAS disks
2 Approx. 40 minutes/
100GB
8 Approx. 30 minutes/
100GB
5 Approx. 25 minutes/
100GB
6 Approx. 30 minutes/
100GB
6 Approx. 40 minutes/
100GB
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3.5" SAS disks Nearline SAS disks
Approx. 35 minutes/ Approx. 73 minutes/
100GB 100GB
Approx. 25 minutes/ Approx. 43 minutes/
100GB 100GB
Approx. 25 minutes/ Approx. 49 minutes/
100GB 100GB
Approx. 25 minutes/ Approx. 43 minutes/
100GB 100GB
Approx. 30 minutes/ Approx. 58 minutes/
100GB 100GB
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