Questions tagged [software-raid]
Questions which refer to software RAID implementations.
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combining SSD and hard disk in software RAID1?
Does it make sense to build a Linux software RAID-1 (mirroring) using an SSD and a normal hard disk? I want to combine the advantages of SSD (fast transfer rates, fast access times) with the ...
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Any difference between Hardware RAID and Software RAID?
I'm building a new server (Small Business Server 2008), but I can't get the built-in RAID controller (AMD SB700) to work and have basically given up on it ever working with Server 2008. Fine.
But my ...
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Use the speed of an SSD + two HDDs in RAID 1
Is it possible to gain a speed benefit of an SSD if you create a software RAID with a big SSD + two small HDDs?
At the moment I have a system with only two 320GB HDDs. And I thought about inserting a ...
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How do I safely move a Windows 7 software RAID 1 volume to a new PC?
I have 2 identical drives in an old PC running as a mirror RAID (RAID1) using the Windows 7 software RAID. These drives are data-only drives and are not being used to boot an operating system.
How do ...
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How to get an inactive RAID device working again?
After booting, my RAID1 device (/dev/md_d0 *) sometimes goes in some funny state and I cannot mount it.
* Originally I created /dev/md0 but it has somehow changed itself into /dev/md_d0.
# mount /...
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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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What's the difference between RAID 1 software mirroring and Fake RAID?
I've just ordered two new hard drives for my main desktop and a copy of Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. I'd like to do a clean install of Windows 7 onto the new drives (leaving my old Windows XP ...
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How can I add a RAID 1 array in Ubuntu 10.04?
I have an existing Ubuntu 10.04 desktop system setup and running on a hard drive (drive A).
I'd like to add two more hard drives (drives B and C, same size) to the system and mount them as a RAID 1 ...
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How do I tell mdadm to start using a missing disk in my RAID5 array again?
I have a 3-disk RAID array running in my Ubuntu server. This has been running flawlessly for over a year but I was recently forced to strip, move and rebuild the machine.
When I had it all back ...
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How to clear RAID "Error Occurred(0)" member disk message?
I had a bad SATA cable which caused an "Error Occurred(0)" message to appear on one of the member disks. I replaced the cable and everything works fine now, but the message remains and the RAID logon ...
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Does software RAID 1 in Windows 7 improve read speeds?
Does software RAID 1 (mirroring) in Windows 7 improve read speeds?
I'd like to set up RAID 1 to help protect my important documents (yes, yes, I know it's not a backup), but performance is also ...
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Reducing Linux Software RAID Rebuild Speed?
This may sound silly, but is there a way to intentionally reduce the speed of a rebuild in a Linux Software RAID? (Basically reducing the throughput of all of the disks so that it's not maxing out.)
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How to convert a software RAID 1 partition to non-RAID partition?
RAID is not a backup, they say, but only now I can see that what I really need is an (external) backup.
So, I would like to convert a (software) RAID-1 partition to a non-RAID partition (ext4) in my ...
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Will mirroring with an SSD improve read performance?
If you use Windows 7 to mirror a volume across an SSD drive and a mechanical hard drive, will the read performance be similar to a single SSD drive?
I.e. is Windows smart enough to read from them ...
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How do I mount a software RAID1 (mirror) created by Windows in Linux using mdadm?
I'm switching my Windows server to Ubuntu and am trying to get my software RAID1 (mirror) that I created in Windows to show up in Ubuntu. I have read that this is possible here using mdadm, but I'm ...
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Best performance: Windows 10 software striping vs. storage spaces simple
Looking to squeeze a bit more speed out of my development PC for test VMs without necessarily switching to hardware RAID. I've got two identical 2TB SATA-3 data drives (OS is on SSD) so I could ...
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How? Mount, Find & Recover DATA in HDD outside of Synology Box
How? Mount, Find & Recover DATA in HDD outside of Synology Box
I had originally posted this question here on Synology Forums and no real solution was suggested except a Linux / RAID based ...
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Creating a RAID1 partition with mdadm on Ubuntu
I'm trying to set up a RAID1 partition on my Ubuntu 9.10 workstation.
On this dual-boot system, Ubuntu is running from a separate drive (/dev/sdc - an SSD that is quite small, which is why I need ...
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How to install Windows 7 onto software RAID-0
I recently got a new laptop (Asus G73JH-A2) which has two identical hard drives in it. Unfortunately the motherboard does not have a RAID controller. What I would like to do is run the drives in a ...
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Convert RAID 1 to RAID 10 in mdadm
In my current Ubuntu server, I have 2x 2TB Western Digital RED hard drives in a RAID 1, using mdadm. I would like to add 2 more 2TB RED drives, and convert it to a RAID 10. I realize I would have to ...
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New mdadm RAID vanish after reboot
I have problems with mdadm after reboot, I can't reassemble /dev/md0 .
I work on debian wheezy.
I have done the following steps::
sudo mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=6 --raid-devices=4 /...
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I'm trying to mirror drives of the same model, but one appears to be slightly larger
I'm trying to mirror a drive using Disk Management in Windows Home Server 2011. The target drive (Disk 1) is the exact same model as the source drive (Disk 0), but the target drive appears to be 1MB ...
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Is it possible to recover / convert / mount fakeraid image files? (TL;DR - have fakeraid images, want to convert them to mdadm images)
My Promise NAS NS4300N recently died (PSU or motherboard failure, probably the former as it has trouble spinning up the disks).
I've managed to dd(1) the drives (4 500GB drives in a RAID5 ...
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Software RAID and backup altogether
In this thread I've got most valuable tips regarding the home RAID solution options as well as their pros and cons:
RAID for home use
I've figured out for myself a few important points (the ...
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Software RAID 5 with Multiple Partitions (one encrypted partition)
Can I have multiple partitions using Software RAID 5 on an Ubuntu Server?
For example, say using a 4 drive RAID 5 setup, I want one massive partition for storage and a second smaller but encrypted ...
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Degraded RAID5 and no md superblock on one of remaining drive
This is actually on a QNAP TS-509 NAS. The RAID is basically a Linux RAID.
The NAS was configured with RAID 5 with 5 drives (/md0 with /dev/sd[abcde]3). At some point, /dev/sde failed and drive was ...
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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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Reinstall linux with software RAID
I've got ubuntu server on my "home server" with 5 software raid 0 partitions and one software raid 1. I have to reinstall OS. Is it possible to do that without losing existing partitions with data?
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Setting up an 8 drive raid for home use - hardware configuration?
I wish to build an 8x1.5tb file server for home use.
I was looking at putting these 8 HDDs into RAID 5 or 6.
However most botherboards only come with 6 sata ports so I will obviously need to get an ...
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Setting up a RAID 5 Array
I am currently trying to convert my drives from just a bunch of external disks, each one individually shared from my (CentOS) server into a RAID array (ideally, RAID 5).
At current, my drives are:
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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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MDADM raid "lost" after reboot
I am kind of scared right now, so I hope you can bring light on my problem!
A few weeks ago, I bought a new 2TB drive and decided to setup a software RAID 5 with MDADM on my HTPC (drive sdb, sdc and ...
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How can one setup RAID 1 in Linux Mint 13?
I am trying to setup a Linux Mint 13 system using mdadm, with 2 1TB hard drives for a software mirror. I have tried following instructions found for Linux Mint 12, but the instructions fail to mention ...
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Set up raid 1 after OS installation
I bought 2 Lenovo thinkstation E31 and I want to set up RAID 1 on them.
I added a hard drive for each. I went in the BIOS and set it to RAID then I pressed ctrl-l to start the raid manager but it ...
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How can I recover software RAID 0 after formatting my primary OS drive?
I was previously running Windows 7 on a machine that had 5 physical drives - 1 was the primary drive the OS was installed on, and the other 4 were a RAID 0 that was created through Windows 7 disk ...
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Update grub for whole disks added to software raid
I have a raid-1 running under rhel6 (/dev/md0) that is mapped to /. It contains two unpartitioned disks (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb). I'd like to be able to boot from either disk. But grub won't let me ...
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RAID-1 in RHEL 6; can't get partitioning on identical devices to look identical
I have a RHEL 6 fileserver. It contains two identical 2TB SATA drives. Both are supposed to contain one partition that takes up all the space on the drive (and this used to be the case). When I had ...
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Steps to swap failed disk in RAID 10?
I have a RAID 10 array consisting of 4 disks. One of them has failed and I have removed it from the array.
I have purchased an identical new drive and am unsure about how to add the new drive to the ...
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What would happen in a Software Raid 1 of one HDD and one SSD?
I'm running my Windows 7 installation and all of my apps from an SSD for performance reasons. Since SSD's can instantly die at any moment, I'm looking for some kind of data backup strategy. Right Now ...