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currently at 63% complete media storage RAID 1 to safe guard from a hardware failure and RAID 0 to improve data access speeds for the file sizes

Seagate BarraCuda ST8000DM004 3.5" 8TB 256MB 5400RPM HDD can you offer an explanation for the slow down?

I'm currently formatting (full format) a hard drive that is 14902.96 GB in size off 4 drives in a RAID 1+0 on the BIOS so Win 10 just sees 1 drive. When I started the format it was proceeding at a sustained (over a 30 sec period) ~150MB/s but 26 hours later it has completed 55% and now has a...