How long should it take to format a 2TB Hard Drive?

[Fritz]

It's been about 24 hrs. and it's at 58%.

 

[cesmith9999]

depends... quick format? long format?

linux? windows?

raid card?
HBA?
what params did you run for format?

Chris

 

[Fritz]

Windows non quick format.

Seagate Constellation ES Connected to the on board LSI 2308 IT controller.

 

[cesmith9999]

it can take a while.

 

[T_Minus]

1310 minutes and 5.2 seconds

 

[Fritz]

Thanks

 

[Fritz]

And the answer is.......... 2.5 days.

The drive is fine. No SMART errors after formatting.

 

[Terry Kennedy]

And the answer is.......... 2.5 days.

The drive is fine. No SMART errors after formatting.

I'd suggest running a HD benchmark tool to see what sort of transfer rate you're getting - this looks like there is something wrong, I would expect to see at least 90MB/sec on a slow drive (as long as it isn't SMR). 90MB/sec is 5.4GB/min, 324GB/hr, 7.77TB/day.

The only thing that could possibly explain this is a dumb format program that does unaligned writes to a 512e drive.

 

[Fritz]

It took a lot longer than I was expecting.