Raid-5 Initialization Stuck at 91%

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I've got 5 WD 2tb EARS drives set up in a Raid-5 array using Intel's H57 software raid solution.

I set up the drives in the array fine, and began initializing. It moved up to 91% over the course of about 15-20 hours. However, it's now been sitting at 91% for the last 24 hours and has not moved a bit.

Any ideas what's going on here? Do I need to just start over or is there something else at work here?
 
Check if the software can do RAID 5 expansion. If so, try creating a RAID 5 with only three drives. If that gets stuck, swap out one of the drives until you can perform a complete initialisation. Then you can add the remaining drive(s) and RMA the bad one.

As a pre-emptive strike, you could try running SpinRite 6.0 on all of the drives, before creating the array.
 
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