Is this normal - RAID format...for 3 days+

[MikeMurphy]

I added four 3TB drives to the EX4 I just bought and decided on RAID 5.  It’s been blinking lights for 3+ days now, I can still access the couple of test files I put on the first drive and there is no way for me to tell how far along the process it is.

I read on the forum some users are changing settings using command line (I think that’s what they called it) but that it voids the warranty.

So far the NAS is a doorstop piece of junk…slow, buggy and unreliable.

Is it normal to take almost 4 days to reformat and set up the RAID structure?

[SectorGZ]

Sorry, you are posting in the wrong forum, this is a My Cloud forum and you need to post in the WD My Cloud EX4 forum.

[MikeMurphy]

Are you sure?  It sure LOOKS like the right forum!

…and your link takes me to this exact forum…

[Hamlet]

Hello,

The original post was in the wrong forum, I moved it to the EX4 forum.