FC Volume Initialization Speed

[enealDC]

I'm initializing a RAID0 volume comprised of 8 RAID5 disk groups with 6 disk each. The initialization at fast speed with 4K block size took almost 3 hours. I measured the speed at roughly 200MB p/s which was very slow.
We are using a modern LSI SAS2 controller, but I'm curious, are there any restrictions in the latest software releases that prevent volume initialization from using up all the controller bandwidth?

[To-M]

It will use allot of resources - try to use Slow when doing it.

[enealDC]

Well that's my point. I want it to go as fast as possible. But so far, the speed I'm getting is 200Mb p/s which is nothing considering my overall configuration..
I'm trying to gauge if I can use the initialization speed as a true test of my disks's real bandwidth..

[To-M]

Your to fast going to have a webinar next week about this - in the mean time hit me with an email so I can give you a small update so you can test the true disk speeds for the read and writes. Send email to pre-sales@open-e.com