Questions tagged [raid-0]

Redundant Array of Independent Drives or Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives also known as RAID is a way to create a sub-storage system comprising several individual discs. RAID-0(also know as striping) is the level of RAID technique used to improve read performance. Over this configuration the data are subdivided into consecutive segments (stripes, or bands) that are written sequentially through each of the disks of an array or set.

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Read MBR from Hard disk image file (.img)

I have created two image files (.img) of my two Hard disks which were RAID0. Now I need to copy MBR bytes from my image files in order copy them to mentioned hard disks, because I have re-created the ...
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Repairing Windows installation that can't boot

Background: I have an Asus UX51VZ that will no longer boot into Windows. This was my dad's primary computer. I took it to a computer shop so they could fix the fans that came on at full speed all the ...
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What makes e2fsck -cc so slow?

This isn't a complaint or a request for tech support or help! I'm just curious about what's going on behind the scenes :) I'm doing e2fsck -cc to flag bad blocks on an 8TB LVM ext4 filesystem. ...
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Rebuilding a RAID 0 array (no drives failed) if I know the block size and start offset?

My laptop's motherboard died. I removed the two hard drives, and both are operational. I then plugged both into to another computer and using some free software was able to get the following: Block ...
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Mounting RAID0 system with an Intel Controller with Linux

I have two 512GB SSDs setup as a RAID0 on a laptop with a Intel RAID controller. I was running Window 7 Pro on it until I messed up the MBR in the RAID by installing Window 10 and Linux Mint on a ...
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Defragmenting partitions with Raid 0

In my current disk configuration it is 2+2 TB Raid 0. Since this 4TB of space was almost full, I installed two more disks in Raid 0. (2+2 TB) I have 8 TB of volume space in total. But in Ubuntu, the ...
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Does anyone have experience recovering the files from a Promise NS4300 server disk?

I have a Promise NS4300 server which contains 285Gb of user files. The windows protocol died so we could no longer access the hard drive (1 drive, no RAID). The support suggestions from Promise didn't ...
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Any advantages of having Raid0 with single drive?

Are there any advantages of having a Raid0 configuration with a single drive? Both Intel controllers and LSI controllers I'm using allow for Raid0 creation using a single drive. Is there any ...
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Expand or shrink striped array in Windows?

I plan to replace 2 of my HDDs (let's call them A & B, they're not in RAID) with 2 larger HDDs (C & D) in software RAID 0 (Striped volume in Windows). The one problem I have is that my case ...
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Can RAID 0 cause significantly more writes on one drive?

I use a Windows 10 laptop with two 1-TB SSDs mounted with RAID 0. I see in CrystalDiskInfo: SSD 1 SSD 2 Total Host Reads 8193 GB 8193 GB Total Host Writes 5295 GB 5383 GB Total Host Reads is the ...
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Recoverable RAID configuration for Windows 7

I'm getting Windows-7 in the next couple days to install on a home-built 2-disk system. The motherboard supports fake-raid, so I'll be setting up some RAID0 and RAID1 volumes. My hope is to make the ...
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Asus Motherboard don't have Raid settings

i have asus h310 prime plus in detail in asus site this have Intel® H310 https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/PRIME/PRIME-H310-PLUS/techspec/ and intel h310 support rapid storage ...
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Why Clonezilla doesn't recognize RAID0 drives - and how to fix it?

I have a not-so-recent HP desktop PC (model# m9510f, Q8200 CPU - I think it was manufactured in early 2009 sometime, because it still had Vista 64-bit). I've set it up with a pair of 500GB drives ...
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Remove a disk from RAID 1 array or convert from RAID1 to RAID0

I've a dedicated server running a RAID1 array of 2 disks of 1TB. I can't install a new operating system but I can only bootstrap a new one with the predefined configuration. I really don't need the ...
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RAID0 SSD array write speed and multithreading

I have a RAID0 array of 20 SSD disks and each SSD has a max write speed of 530 MB/s. The PCIexpress controller is 8x. The array is mapped to a virtual disk (D) formatted with NTFS in Windows 10 I was ...
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Diagnosing Windows / HDD / RAID0 failure

My machine is as follows: Pair of hard disks in RAID0, ATA Hitachi HDT72505 nVidia motherboard, "M51"? Windows XP refused to boot: Booting normally results in hanging during the Windows loading ...
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Removal of Raid 0 configuration to two NVMe SDDs

I have just purchased a laptop that is still in its box and does not have Windows installed yet (I'll use the laptop for 3D modelling and cannot afford data loss). The laptop comes with 2x 500 GBs ...
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mix SATA 3 and SATA 2 HDD in RAID 0

I have MegaRAID 6Gb/s RAID controller (LSI 9261-8i). Now I have an RAID 0 array that consists from 4 reliable enterprise server HDDs (WD Re) that support SATA 3. I need to extend this array (to ...
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raid 0 data recovery?

I have two identical seagate 7200.9 500Gb drives confiured as a RAID 0 spanned disk in windows. One of the drives has lost power and wont spin up at all. I know this normally means death for the data ...
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Can someone explain RAID-0 in plain English?

I've heard about and read about RAID throughout the years and understand it theoretically as a way to help e.g. server PCs reduce the chance of data loss, but now I am buying a new PC which I want to ...
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How to Partition a Single HDD With Hardware RAID 0

I have one SSD and one 10TB HDD. All the OS stuffs (e.g. /, /root, /var, /usr, etc) are on the SSD. And for a very dumb reason, I have to attach the 10TB to a RAID card (LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i). ...
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Replace a Raid 0 Disk (Software Raid/Windows)

I would like to know if it is possible, to replace a Disk in a Windows Software Raid 0. (e.g. clone the disk to another one inside the OS) I have seen another post where this question was asked, but ...
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AMD Raid and Dual Boot

I've just upgraded my PC with a new Ryzen processor and a B550M Motherboard. I use this computer for both gaming (in a Windows-dedicated SSD) and working (in another Linux-dedicated SSD). I also have ...
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Does RAID 0 (striping) with two SSD hard disk make any sense?

I have a notebook (Dell M6500, 16GB Ram, I7-940M) with RAID controller (hardware raid controller). At the moment I have two SATA HDDs in RAID 0 (stripe) for best performance. I want to buy SSDs (...
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Can a single drive RAID 0 be converted to a standard drive?

A while back I set up a single drive in RAID 0 on a RAID card. I now want to switch my card to HBA mode. Will my RAID 0 drive read as a standard drive or will the data be lost?
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What are the pros/cons of SSD vs RAID 0 in the alienware laptops? [closed]

I'm considering purchasing a new Alienware laptop for my software development and testing work. I'm looking at the M15 R3. I'm hung up on the hard drive choices. The Dell config page give 2 choices: ...
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Replacing CMOS battery affect to the RAID controller?

Recently I replaced my graphic card and the BIOS does post with FF status code but in the step of Verify DMI Pool Data hangs. I'm thinking remove de CMOS battery for reset de board but I have a RAID 0 ...
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How to clone a single SSD to a 2 SSD RAID0?

This is the opposite to this: How do I clone a RAID 0 array to a single disk? I have a single SSD of 128GB, and I want to move it to 2x240GB SSD in RAID0. The reason: My windows is installed in ...
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Remove Raid-0 and reinstall windows 10

I have recently bought this laptop: Here. Unfortunately, it comes with two 256 GB SSD's in Raid 0. I do not want this, so I will break the raid configuration. HOWEVER, because Windows is installed ...
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Mobo dead, how to access striped volume externally from laptop?

I have a dead PC with 2 data drives that are windows striped (not hardware raid-0). If I buy a usb raid enclosure, do you think windows will recognize them as a dynamic disc? If not, is there a way to ...
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Repair raid after bad suspension (Error Occurred 0)

My Zenbook after a standby problem in Xubuntu 14.04 is not booting anymore, neither Xubuntu nor Windows want to boot. This screen comes up after BIOS: Pressing Ctrl+I I obtain: Option 1, 4 and 5 ...
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Is there a way to revert/destroy/disassemble a RAID-0 set with Disk Utility?

And recover/reconstruct the data (that is split in half) across two SSDs? I just haven't noticed enough real-world-usage improvement using RAID-0 (perhaps related question) and would like to use the ...
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Remove RAID-0 from two NVME drives to dual boot win10 and Ubuntu

I currently have two Samsung EVO ~500GB NVMe drives running Windows 10 in RAID-0. I would like to remove the RAID-0 configuration and use one of the disks for Ubuntu 18.04 while the other disk remains ...
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Raid Controller doesn't work after installing

This controller actually caused multiple problems. First, the AMI-Bios had a constant beep, where the internet says it's a power adapter problem. After some time, the Bios worked and didn't beep ...
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What is faster: SSD (OS) + HDD (data) versus 2x HDD as RAID 0 stripe?

I will mostly be working with Autocad Software, Photoshop and maybe some other design software (architecture). I will have a Quadro FX graphics card for rendering. So I am not so much interested in ...
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Why Raid 1 don't improve read performance like Raid 0?

It should be able to read the data across the 2 disks like with Raid 0 right? but when I look at benchmark it looks like only one drive is used to read the data. https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index....
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Motherboard RAID support or Hardware RAID controller?

About a year ago when I was researching how to set up some drives using RAID on a PC I was planning to build, everyone said I would need to purchase a hardware RAID controller, the decent one was ...
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Server 2016 Storage Spaces and NumberOfColumns

I think we all know about the NumberOfColumns issues: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/tip_of_the_day/2015/03/17/tip-of-the-day-numberofcolumns/ That said, let's pretend to plan the following (at ...
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Restore RAID 0 with one member disk having been written to

Due to a bad overclock I had to reset my CMOS. This caused my RAID 0 to show up as "failed". One disk was detected as member the other detected as "Non raid disk". I have no reason to believe that the ...
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Is there a RAID 0 Equivalent for RAM?

With hard drives, you can put them in a RAID 0 configuration to split data between drives to increase read and write speed. Is there an equivalent of this for RAM? If I have 16 GB of memory, for ...
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Backup raid 0 to multiple smaller drives

I have 4 4TB external USB drives in a raid 0 set (created with btrfs). I have another 4 4TB external USB drives not in a raid set. What would be the best solution to backup the raid set to the 4 ...
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How to create raid1 mirror for existing mdadm raid0 - without overwriting data

I created a /dev/md1 raid0 across two drives, added ext4 filesystem, and it's mountable and working fine. I created a /dev/md2 raid0 across two drives, added ext4 filesystem, and it's also mountable ...
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Combining SSDs using RAID-0

If I have 2 SSDs via SATA3, both reaching speeds of about 500MB/s, which is close to SATA3 limit, does it make sense to combine them using RAID0? I mean if the SATA3 chip can provide the 6Gb/s speed ...
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Fake RAID 0 - Data recovery under Linux - 2 HDDs with Windows 10

I suspect someone at the company decided to do a partition span, i.e.: (taken a look from Linux Debian 9) Drive #1: Disk /dev/sdc: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of ...
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Does setting RAID disks require all disks to be in RAID?

I am interested in running a PC this way, 1 C: main OS drive and 2 2TB +2TB in RAID 0 Windows is already installed and I wanted to add the disks later. Do I have to reformat C: to RAID to be able to ...
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Setup RAID 0 for an Asus Zenbook UX301i

I've been asked to format and install Linux on the laptop, which has two 128gb SSDs. ASUS suggest RAID 0 is fast, so I want to setup the laptop, as is, but with Linux Mint installed. https://www.asus....
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Does RAID 0 increase the latency of the volume on HDD? [duplicate]

I will add a new HDD to my computer (identical to the old HDD). I'm wondering if it's a good idea to do a raid 0 vs using the two drive separately. How much it impact the latency and the performance....
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Do 7200rpm & large cache HDD make a noticeable difference in a RAID 0 for 4k video editing?

For large file 4k video editing, is a 7200rpm drive worth it in a RAID 0? 2x4TB drives (possibly 2x6TB) RAID 0 in a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure 7200rpm or 5400rpm? Drawbacks being cost, heat, noise, ...
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Raid 0 life expectancy and how to access 2 disks from Raid 0 outside of original computer

Two questions about Raid 0: My situation: My motherboard with RAID controller got sent in for an RMA (3 weeks turnaround). Asus sent me back a different motherboard that had way worse problems than my ...
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Recovering a Synology Raid 0 from Ubuntu (Healthy drives)

I am trying to remount a Synology raid 0 with 3x2GB drives. As far as I know, the drives are in healthy condition. I simply don't have enough space to do a full image of these before I proceed, so I ...

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