A couple of questions here:

1. what are good reasons to do this?
2. Why does it take so darn long?
3. Why did my memory usage skyrocket once the process started


I'm trying to init a RAID10 volume on an areca 1680xi-24 SAS controller. The volume 2500 GB and is made up of 15 drives and it's the system is very slow right now, its been running about an hour and is only 8% complete......