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My oh my, it certainly does take some time to construct a 3TB RAID5 array from scratch..

Seriously?
Or do you mean the whole system rather than just the array?

IIRC my 1Tb arrays took seconds to create and more seconds to build a filesystem (using XFS though).

It does take a while for the background sync to finish - but you can use the array as normal in the meantime.
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