https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/formatting-drives/m-p/2477708#M752 During an initial so install formatting of the he's on array controller may vary based up scsi protocol being used, cables and he's also [be 5300 (u3 protocol) running (u3 10k drives) using the blue and white u3 cable] a format will be quicker than that of a scsi 3 controller be 2dh connected to scsi 3 10k drives, however I've found that formating drives using disk administrator take next to no time at all if using quick format as opppsed to a standard conditional format. Wed, 03 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT Ayman Altounji 2001-01-03T00:00:00Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/formatting-drives/m-p/2477707#M751 Using NT4, SP6, and all the latest Compaq drivers, SSD, formatting NTFS partitions with this controller took literally just a few seconds ! This doesn't seem possible? I also formatted with and without array acelleration. I got similar format times. I'm puzzled. How can this be? WHen formatting with other Smart Array controllers I get "normal" format times...just wondering... Tue, 02 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/formatting-drives/m-p/2477707#M751 Ayman Altounji 2001-01-02T00:00:00Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/formatting-drives/m-p/2477708#M752 During an initial so install formatting of the he's on array controller may vary based up scsi protocol being used, cables and he's also [be 5300 (u3 protocol) running (u3 10k drives) using the blue and white u3 cable] a format will be quicker than that of a scsi 3 controller be 2dh connected to scsi 3 10k drives, however I've found that formating drives using disk administrator take next to no time at all if using quick format as opppsed to a standard conditional format. Wed, 03 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/formatting-drives/m-p/2477708#M752 Ayman Altounji 2001-01-03T00:00:00Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/formatting-drives/m-p/2477709#M753 Good Information - Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:00:00 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/formatting-drives/m-p/2477709#M753 Ayman Altounji 2001-03-28T00:00:00Z