Questions tagged [software-raid]
Questions which refer to software RAID implementations.
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How to recover RAID 1 array from a single device during reshape?
I have one disk that is in raid 4 reshaping from a previous raid 1. According to examine mode by mdadm, the disk is marked as a spare in a raid 4 array of 3 disks. I was hoping to recover data on it ...
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Getting rid of "Current pending sector" in Microsoft dynamic drive member without resynching to another disk and erasing it
I've got an issue with drive - current "current pending sectors" count is equal 15. I think that it might be only a result of a broken SATA cable, which I've got rid of today.
Long story ...
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Why are random writes to an MD RAID 10 extremely slow (12.5 MB/sec)?
I've just run a fio test against a 6-disk level 10 MD RAID of SATA 2 drives (WDC_WD5003AZEX; 500 GB each) on an OpenSuSE 15.4 machine powered by an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz and ...
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Recover a RAID5 logical volume with two failed devices
before bashing me I assure you I know a RAID5 devices can survive only one drive failure. So... why am I asking this?
I had two disks disconnected simultaneously from my machine, so raid failed. Also ...
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How to wait for mdadm RAID1 resync process to fully complete?
I currently have a logic to wait for the resync process to finish by looking at /sys/block/mdXXX/md/raid_state to be clean and assume that the resync has finished. However, I don't think this is ...
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How do I eliminate file write latency spikes on mdadm raid0?
High Level Problem Summary
We are working on an application that requires high throughput to RAID0 for extended periods of time. There are up to 8 independent 5 GB/s data streams being written to ...
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Mount & Access DATA in RAID1 configured HDD outside of Synology Box on Linux [mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock]
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My Two-Disk Synology DS14+ won't power on and I want to access the files stored in the HDDs on my Ubuntu computer. I tried following the official guide on Synology's FAQ but I always get ...
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Creating Mirror (RAID 1) on Windows 10 causes not enough disk space error
I have 2 disks (disk 1 and 2), both are exactly 2794.52 GB.
Disk 2 is formatted and contains important data,
Disk 1 is unallocated.
Note that I cannot back up my data and format Disk 2 due to the ...
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Windows Storage Spaces 2-Way Mirror behavior in case of a faulty drive
Assuming a simple, fully-provisioned two-way mirror Storage Spaces setup on Windows 10/11, how does it behave when one of the drives gets faulty:
One of the drives cannot read some sectors, and SMART'...
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Is it safe to use Windows 11 Mirror Storage Spaces with BitLocker Auto-Unlock
There have been reports from a few years back (albeit both about Windows 10, not 11) regarding some issues / incompatibilities that lead to data loss / corruption of using Windows Storage Spaces where ...
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Zpool hung while attaching a new disk, now faulted
I was attempting to expand the storage on a large ZFS pool, adding a similarly sized drive from a USB bay. The pool was in use, and the zpool attach command hung. After an hour, it still hadn't ...
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Best way to use Windows' RAID 1 to have an hot backup
I'm looking for a way to direct Win10 Pro RAID system to direct the reads to the fast drive in the mirror
I'm on Windows 10 PRO and have regular (but not too frequent) backups of my system.
The system ...
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Could someone, anyone, help me rebuild my RAID 10 array please?
A little background information just to help (hopefully)... I was doing a backup from my Synology box over the weekend and all was going very well up until Sunday morning when I've tried to re-connect ...
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How to rebuild mdraid array when I forgot to do a mdadm --remove?
I have physically replaced the /dev/sdkb disk but I forgot to a :
sudo mdadm /dev/md4 --remove /dev/sdkb3
Here is the status of the array :
$ sudo mdadm -D /dev/md4
/dev/md4:
Version : 1.2
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Cannot understand disk architecture on Synology NAS RS3412RPxs : is /dev/sdkb3 a physical or logical disk?
I have the following synology RS3412RPxs NAS :
$ uname -u
synology_bromolow_rs3412rpxs
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with the following MD-RAID array rebuilding /dev/sdkb3 on the RX1211rp-1 extension unit :
$ sudo mdadm -D /...
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Assemble raid6 array from spares only
This question is related to Managing raid6 device with pacemaker, but nothing in the question linked is relevant to this question, except the fact that Pacemaker is involved.
For the purpose of this ...
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Managing raid6 device with pacemaker
I am setting up 4 hosts, each exporting one local storage device over iscsi with target. Every other hosts imports it such that each host has concurrent access to all 4 each storage devices. I built a ...
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Ubuntu Server mdam device disappeared after reboot
I have a server (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) running a software RAID 1 with mdadm, consisting of 2 WD Red disks. After booting the server, a Windows client couldn’t find the Samba share. I logged into the ...
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Does multi storage pools make sense to avoid more damage from a bad disk?
I am a beginner of NAS(and its hardwares), and I get some basic knowledge about RAID from Synology's guidebook. There are many tutorials taught me how to use my hard drive devices to create the ...
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Re-adding disk to md raid fails
I have a problem with a Linux software raid and don't know what are the next steps to overcome this.
It's a Raid 1 of several partitions. After an unclean shutdown the raid started unclean degraded ...
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Setting up External Storage for Micro Server
Need advice on a relatively cheap and stable way to set up external drives with an Optiplex micro. I upgraded my old homelab server (i5 with ZFS RAID 1 over SATA) to an Optiplex 5060 micro. Optiplex ...
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Where can I see Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU logs on Windows Server 2019 and check if there is any error on any Raid 1 disks?
I have the below system and i noticed that it is repairing the raid right now.
I want to be sure that there is no bad sectors on any of the raid disk but I don't know how can I do that
Here all the ...
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How to deal with LVM RAID mismatches – are there benign causes?
I employ LVM with raid1 volumes both at home and at work. One of the disks in my home server has been starting to report S.M.A.R.T. selftest read failures. Looking for ways to investigate the severity ...
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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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How much space does a Linux software RAID1 REALLY occupy on its component devices?
A precise answer to this question is important when shrinking the array and its components.
As an example, I have a RAID1 /dev/md0 set up on two partitions, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1.
Both fdisk and /...
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Determine why drive was removed from software RAID array and rebuild safely
I have a fairly large Linux software raid6 array, with 16 devices. Recently I noticed that a drive appears to have failed out of the array:
$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [...
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How to identify physical disks in Linux RAID
Is there a way of reliably being able to tell which physical drive in a RAID relates to the software device name given to it by the OS?
I have a RAID5 array of consumer-grade USB disks (and one spare) ...
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How to use a very slow HD with a fast HD as if it were just one
My problem is quite specific:
I need to run an application that has 500 GB but I have two HDs: a fast 200 GB and a very very slow 2TB.
The 2TB HD is external USB and was mounted over the network (NFS) ...
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Questions about external SSD software RAID?
I currently have two 2.5" 4TB SSDs. My plan is to get an external Thunderbolt enclosure with a minimum of 4 bays and no hardware RAID (e.g. OWC Thunderbay Mini), and buy two more 4TB SSDs to make ...
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I want to collect system information using bat file
I hope you all are doing well. Help me please.
I want to collect system information using bat file like:
List of Software
OS information
System Hardware details.
I had some code which collects the ...
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Create a bootable RAID 1 in Windows 10/11?
I have two NVME 2TB PCIe X 4 and I am using an AMD 5950X.
How do I create a RAID so that it’s bootable for a Windows 10/11 install?
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Should ZFS RAID-Z2 theoretical maximum be 256+2 drives?
For RAID 6 in wiki, the extra priority check bit Q is calculated by shifting of bits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_6
Suppose we would like to distribute our data over n {\...
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Raid 10 gone - how to rebuild / find informations
Because of another task, i had to disconnect all the raid hdd's from my pc.
Shutdown -> disconnect hdd's -> boot -> shutdown -> connect hdd's -> boot -> raid completely lost.
mdadm --...
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How to restore my RAID5 after mistakenly failing one of the drives?
I have a RAID5 on Xubuntu 20.04, created with mdadm. I failed one of the three drives by mistake. The array is still working, but I get errors or responses I do not understand from my attempts to ...
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Improve mdadm RAID5 with SSD Cache
I have the following Setup:
3x 3 TB SATA HDD
With software raid connected to a RAID5
On top of this LVM for snapshots (backup)
And on top of LVM EXT4 formatted.
Actually around 400GB is used.
I have ...
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raid 4 3 disks + 2 parity disks
I have a raid 0 with 3 disks and I want to be able to lose some disks without losing data.
I'm using mdadm and I already started to grow my config
Current config:
Personalities : [raid0] [linear] [...
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My Software RAID 5 has 4 3TB HDDs, now two of them have bad sectors. What is a good way to replace them?
I run mdadm on Ubuntu 18.04 to build a RAID 5 array of 4 3TB drives several years ago. The machine was not running for years. Yesterday I powered it on and found two of the disks have a bunch of bad ...
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How do I access a Windows 10 Storage Spaces from another Windows 10 install?
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So a while ago (maybe 3 weeks ago) I decided to divide my NVMe in half to duel boot Windows and Linux. In the process I somehow deleted my Windows boot partitions or something. I honestly ...
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Can Clonezilla work with Windows striped volume?
Let's assume I have striped volume in Windows 11 (two disks).
Will Clonezilla be able to create and later restore images of both disks, so Windows will still recognize them properly as striped volume?
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What exactly is Parity Consistency Check that Synology NAS runs when a new disk is added and why does it normally take a long time to complete?
What exactly is "Parity Consistency Check" that Synology NAS runs when a new disk is added and why does it normally take a long time to complete?
Why does the process takes a long time? (can ...
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Is there a way to install Windows onto Dynamic disks?
I like using the Dynamic disks with striping in Windows and was wondering if I could install from a Windows ISO onto a set of striped dynamic disks.
So far in my testing, that's not possible. I get ...
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Software RAID10 done via Windows 10 - would it remain after system re-installation?
Configuration: 4x1TB HDDs added into a storage space in Windows10 with 2-way mirroring, resulting in 2TB storage (so, I believe, "software-RAID10"):
screenshot of the setup
The question is - ...
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Recoverability of Windows 10 storage pool (Software RAID 5)
I'm currently looking into RAID 5 for my growing data for my home PC and some things are still unclear to me. I currently have each of my drives backed up by an additional "backup" drive and ...
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Create RAID 1 on Windows 10
Usually I work with RAID controllers however in this case this is not possible so I need to use the "Windows software raid" (or some other kind of software raid for that matter).
If I have ...
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What kind of raid I have?
I have the raid option on bios and I got Intel chipset SATA/PCIe RST premium and Microsoft Storage Spaces controllers under storage controllers on device manager but both my disks on basic mode. Is ...
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How to reshape a 2-disk RAID1 into a 2-disk RAID5 using mdadm?
According to How to remove a drive from a non-standard 2-drive RAID 5 array?, "with mdadm, a 2 drive RAID 5 is binary identical to a RAID1". If that is so, what's the mdadm command line for ...
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How long should RAID 10 syncing stay at 'recovery = 99.9%'?
After replacing a faulty disk in a (CentOS 7) RAID 10, the syncing is at the following stage for quite some time now; it has had this state for more than a day:
md10 : active raid10 sdp1[9] sdo1[8](S)...
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Way to monitor progress of RAID10 rebuilding disks, when RAID does not show in /proc/mdstat?
I have an inactive RAID 10, and the output of mdadm --assemble --scan -v |& tail -17 is:
mdadm: /dev/sdn1 is identified as a member of /dev/md/10, slot 5.
mdadm: /dev/sdk1 is identified as a ...
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mdadm: RAID gone after reboot, partitions gone, service masked
Some weeks ago I set up a software RAID 1 with mdadm, consisting of two 2TB WD Red HDDs, as a backup medium (Debian Stable). Everything works, I hooked up everything for it to come up after a reboot, ...
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¿Does a RAID array persist through multiple OS installations?
As title said; i'd like to know if a Windows-made software RAID array will persist a new installation, if I could read that RAID with another Windows partition or installation and if other OS could ...