Questions tagged [hardware-raid]
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Onboard RAID vs Software RAID
My motherboard, an Asus M4a79t Deluxe, advertises RAID 0/1/5 capabilities. My limited understanding is that onboard RAID is better than software RAID. Is this necessarily true? Is an onboard RAID ...
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RAID5 with on-board controller, is it possible to move the HDDs to a new server?
I am wondering how safe a hardware RAID configuration can be.
In case of a HDD failure, I just need to replace the damaged hard drive. What if the server motherboard crashes? Is it possible to get ...
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Hardware or Software RAID and Filesystem Type?
I'm looking to build a pretty simple RAID-5 or RAID-6 array and I'm looking into my options. The machine will be a 64bit Ubuntu Linux Server and will essentially be used as a backup/file server. I'll ...
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Can I run multiple RAID arrays on a single RAID card?
I"m looking to buy a hardware RAID card for my Linux computer which I'm building, and I'm specifically considering this Intel model.
I'm planning on running multiple RAID arrays in my computer: a ...
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Hardware RAID - what happens if the motherboard or controller fails?
I want to set up a RAID 5 array in a machine that has an intel motherboard. It has built in raid (sata). My concern is what happens if the motherboard fails?
How can I take those hard drives ...
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Multiple operating systems/partitions on a hardware RAID array?
I've read that running multiple operating systems/boot partitions in RAID arrays doesn't always work as planned and is difficult at best. Is this true only of software RAID arrays? If so, that makes a ...
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Why are hardware RAID solutions relatively expensive?
I was looking more recently into building a RAID-10 array for good drive performance and parity, and I started looking into hardware RAID cards. I was thinking I'd be paying under $100 for one, but it ...
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RAID vs AHCI on Windows7 x64 ASUS
I have an ASUS p5ke-wifi/ap which has built-in RAID controller. From the BIOS, I can choose between 3 controller types:
IDE
RAID
AHCI
In that order. This setting was set to AHCI when I installed ...
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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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move RAID controller + HDDs + data (RAID5) to new motherboard
I have a HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 RAID controller with 4 HDDs on my MSI P6N SLI mainboard and want to move the RAID controller with its HDDs and data to my new computer that has a Asrock H61M-ITX ...
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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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RAID 0 + 1 with 3HDD 2x1TB + 1x2TB
Is it possible to make RAID 0 + 1 with 3 Hard Drives
I have currently setup raid 0 with 2x~1TB HDD (1.8TB approx)
Now i got 2TB HDD (1.9TB approx) which i want to be as a mirror drive.
Is is ...
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Bad performance with HP P840 and P440ar and consumer SSD in Raid 10 or consumer HDD in Raid 5
i know that my setup isn't supported officially by this kind of hardware, but still i am really astonished how bad it behaves.
i am running a ML350 Gen9 with 128GB of RAM, dual Xeon E5-2630 V3 on ...
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How do you disable BIOS RAID on SuperMicro X9SCL/X9SCM motherboard?
I am trying to install SLES11 on a computer with a X9SCL/X9SCM SuperMicro motherboard. The BIOS version is 1.1a (9/28/2011).
The SATA controller configuration gives me the following choices:
AHCI
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On-board RAID vs Hardware RAID
They technically are both "hardware" raids, but what really sets the two apart? Wouldn't on-board raid basically be a software raid since they share the same processor.
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Does the PERC H310 Raid Controller support hard drives above 2 TB (e.g. 3 TB)?
We received a new machine (Dell Precision T3600) with a PERC H310 RAID Controller.
Due to some troubles during the installation I started to read a bit about that RAID card, and I found some sources, ...
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Prevent Windows 2003 blue screen upon boot after changing to RAID?
Here's what's happening.
I havent been using hardware RAID on my motherboard, but since I got new disks today I changed from normal SATA to RAID and rebooted.
I set up the RAID, three disks, one of ...
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How do PCI express RAID cards work?
I was recently playing with Xen server which supports hardware RAID only and as I always used Linux MD's only so far, I have no knowledge of hardware RAID at all. I was looking for some cheap hardware ...
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RAID 5 - replacing failed disks with larger disks
I have a RAID 5 array with 12 disks, each 12 TB. It is controlled by a hardware RAID controller (LSI 9380-4i4e) on Windows Server 2012.
As they eventually fail one by one, if I replace the failed 12 ...
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How is Data Recovered when a RAID array fails
I am thinking of using hardware RAID (levels 5 and 10) on my computers. What I don't get is how is data recovered when something goes bad and the RAID array fails (RAID Card problem or anything else).
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Laptop offers RAID option - how does that work?
I am in the market for a new laptop. I'm looking at the Dell M6800 and HP ZBook 17. Both of these laptops can be configured with a RAID 0/1/5 option. Is this hardware RAID or software RAID?
I have ...
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How do I set up hardware RAID?
This might seem like a stupid question, but the last rig I put together was an 800 MHz single core computer.
I decided to put together a fileserver based on the Asus p8z77-I deluxe motherboard.
I ...
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Can I mix a 15K drive with a SSD drive in a hardware RAID1?
I've got a hardware RAID1 of two Hitachi 15K drives here, forming the array with an Adaptec controller. Let's assume one disk dies and I'd like adopt SSDs. I would then replace the dead drive with a ...
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RAID 1 using Dell PERC H330, with no cache and no battery
We recently leased a dedicated server and found out that the server (Dell PowerEdge R230) has a Dell PERC H330 RAID controller. As we searched Dell's website, we found out that this controller does ...
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Recovering data from a Silicon Image SiI3114 RAID
I have a set of 3 disks in RAID 5 originally created with a Silicon Image SiI3114 on-board RAID controller. The old motherboard is dead. The new motherboard (which has a different raid controller) won'...
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Converting software RAID1 to hardware RAID1 without losing data
I have a home server running Ubuntu Jaunty and housing a 2 x 2TB RAID1 array. It is a software RAID but I'm looking to pull out those drives and put them in a external RAID enclosure to save space. My ...
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Cloning HDDs from a hardware RAID array?
Is it possible to clone the individual disks of a hardware RAID to get a copy of the contained array?
I have an Adaptec RAID controller. I put it offline, attached the RAID member HDDs to a regular ...
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Intel Desktop Board DH67CL
I have purchased a system with Intel DH67CL Board, which offers RAID Support of 0,1,10 levels.
I want to install Windows 2008R2 on it but first want to create a RAID 1 or RAID 10 (I have 4 Sata HDDs ...
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Add a small RAID card? Will it help overall stability and performance of my nine hard drives?
Will I get any extra genuine added performance and RAID stability if I insert a basic RAID card into a PCI-E x1 slot?
I am considering the Adaptec 1220SA - 2 port SATA, PCI-express (1x), RAID 0/1. Ok, ...
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SDcard /dev/sdb2 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here
I divided my sdcard into 2 partitions, but It got an error and couldn't create a new partition.
Error:
/dev/sdb2 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!
My /dev/...
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Disk utilization 100%, no read or write
Our disks on one of our servers are showing 100% utilization but no read or write.
here is the output of iostat -xc 1 and errors on syslog
https://gist.github.com/4110533
status info from raid card ...
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How do I extend the storage space in my NAS server?
I have a NAS server (Dell R310 and FreeNAS OS) with RAID 1 and 2 x 250GB, and 2 slots for hot plug disk space are free. It is using hardware RAID.
But the disk space is almost full, how can I extend ...
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How to setup RAID 5 - Windows Home Server
I am planning to install Windows Home Server 2011 on my new mini server. I have 3 x 2TB hard drives and another hard drive for the OS.
I can't find any tutorials on how set up RAID 5 on Windows Home ...
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Gigabyte Motherboard + Adaptec RAID = No Booting from any drives
I have a brand new PC, just out of the box. It has a Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3 motherboard.
I also have an Adaptec ASR-2504 SAS RAID card with 2x 15k Seagate Barracuda SAS drives attached.
After the ...
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How many RAID controllers do I need?
I need to make a 50TB RAID array.
Now I'm confused!
I didn't found any RAID controller that have more than 8 channels (So supports 8 drives (?)).
So how can I make an array of 25x2TB drives?
Do I need ...
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RAID Hard drive partition lost - Any way to recover?
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So I have a hardware RAID controller that does a RAID 10 with 4 drives. Recently one of the drives failed so I got a new drive and replaced the failed one. I let the controller rebuild the ...
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Which RAID is easier to do recovery from, a software RAID or a hardware RAID?
I'm shopping for a new server and have been using software RAIDs.
But I wondered about doing recovery on a hardware RAID vs a software one. I know with a software RAID you have to enter a series of ...
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How do you increase hard drive space on an Intel hardware RAID 1 with larger disks?
I have an old RAID 1 volume from about 7 years ago. A while ago I replaced one out of two drives with a drive with 4x the size and then recently I replaced the second two out of two disks. Both of the ...
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Disk durability when using RAID 10 vs RAID 5
Most of the time technical articles about different RAID levels mostly about
how redundant they are, how fast on read/write etc.
But I can't find information about would a disk in a certain RAID
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Hardware Raid Card Reviews with SSDs
Yes I realize there are several questions about this but none of them seem to have the answer I'm looking for.
I have two SSDs and am looking to buy a purely hardware raid card for them; however, I ...
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Can you move a RAID from a dedicated controller to on-board motherboard raid?
So currently I have a very old raid card that I have 4 drives attached to because at the time my Mobo did not have enough sata ports. Now much later I have a new motherboard and the raid controller ...
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Dell PERC H710P Raid Control reduced I/O speeds when idle
I have a Dell PERC H710P Raid Controller card and 4 Dell Certified 600GB Solid State Drives configured in RAID-10. I have a Dell Poweredge R820. After performing benchmark tests using ATTO, I usually ...
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Should I use Windows write cache if I have RAID controller + BBU?
I have ARECA ARC-1231ML 2 GB Cache and RAID 0 with 4 A-data 30 GB SSD drives and sometimes Windows is checking filesystem during boot.
I think the problem is that my system is using RAM as write ...
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Hardware RAID 1 With ERC/TLER/CCTL
I am aware of the problem when using standard consumer-grade drives with RAID levels 5 and 6; if a drive takes too long trying to read and/or repair a bad sector, it will be dropped by a hardware RAID ...
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SSD Vertex 3 RAID 0 performance over time
I want to set up 2x vertex 3 240gb in a raid0. Will performance degrade over time? Is there a solution?
OS agnostic please - if the hardware supports something a driver can be written.
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RAID10 with MegaRAID WebBIOS
I'm trying to create two RAID10 arrays using LSI MegaRAID's WebBIOS utility.
If I understand correctly, I must create many two-disk RAID1 pairs called "disk groups" and then span those disk groups ...
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P420 Hewlett Packard RAID controller reporting identical physicaldrive in all HDD disks
Followed this article to install HP Smart Storage Utilities on Linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
https://www.jimmdenton.com/hp-raid-tools-ubuntu/
I have an UNYKAch Server Rack Hot Swap 4U 24 Bay. I am using a ...
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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 ...
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Is Intel ESRT2 Software-RAID?
I have 2 options for configuring RAID at the UEFI level. Intel ESRT 2 and Intel VROC which is the successor to Intel RST (rapid start).
I know Intel RST and thus VROC (which is present on non server ...
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If I have a RAID 1, is it better to have 2 partitions or 2 logical drives?
I have the need to create 2 drives on a single RAID 1 (1 + 1 TB) configuration under Windows Server. I can create partitions using Windows Disk Management, or I can create logical drives using the ...
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