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Can the transfer rate of SATA limit the performance of a RAID array?
Let's say I have 4 drives and each of them has a transfer rate (random/sequential,read/write, it doesn't matter for the purpose of this question) of 250Mb/s. I put them in RAID 0. This means that I ...
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Raid drive cannot be detected
Only yesterday I bought two new 2GB Seagate drives and set them up as raid and installed lubuntu. It was working fine and there was no problem but today I made the very bad decision of swapping over ...
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Two SATA-3 vs four SATA-2 SSD drives in RAID 0 [closed]
I have a relatively old motherboard (msi BIG BANG-XPOWER) that has 8 SATA ports, 6 of which are SATA-2 and 2 of which are SATA-3 and I'm thinking of creating a RAID-0 array of two or four SSD drives. ...
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Configuring RAID on Intel DX58SO CTRL+I does not enter RAID Config Utility
I have two 3TB HDD plugged into SATA 0 and SATA 1. I configured the drives for RAID in the BIOS and now when I boot I see the RAID config screen. The screen lists all my drives as it should and says ...
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SAS and SATA together in a RAID
I have to build a new server with SAS drives for RAID 10. However, I have 2TBs of storage on 2x1TB SATA drives.
Would it be possible to still plugin 2 SATA drives even if I run a hardware raid 10 ...
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ASUS P5B Plus motherboard - no any drives found - how to restore RAID array?
We have a small server machine with an ASUS P5B Plus motherboard and 4 SATA HDDs. The HDDs were configured in a RAID10 array. Up until now, everything worked fine, but now the system doesn't recognize ...
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Can't find drivers for ASUS P5G41T-M LX on Windows 7?
I'm trying to install Windows 7, but stuck on window with message that I need a mass storage driver. But I can't find it at all. Here is my params:
ASUS P5G41T-M LX Motherboard
Intel(R) G41 ...
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Installing Debian on SATA disk attached to eSATA interface
Recently, I just bought a HP Microserver Proliant N40L for use it as dns, http, vpn, file storage and also for backups of other computers at home. I already have 2 1Tb HDD's, so I thought to buy ...
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RAID 1 or (MSI P35 Neo3) mother board?
What happened was that I have a mirror RAID (RAID-1) and one of the drives died.
As far as I know, one should always use identical drives for mirror RAID (don't mix iszes, don't mix manufacturers, ...
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2nd HDD not showing up in "My Computer". Using SSD as main drive
I just set up my new computer. Built it from scratch. This is my second machine I built so it's not a hobby I'm very proficient at yet.
I have a 60gb SSD and a 1.5 TB HD
In bios I set up my SSD ...
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Cloning PERC H310 RAID 1 to non RAID SATA disk
I have a Windows 10 PC with the OS drive being 2 SAS drives on a Dell PERC H310 as a mirror.
I want to remove the RAID and install a single SATA SSD. I have some programs to which I have no ...
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Host system dead. How do I read data stored on a RAID 1 drive/pair?
I have looked for similar questions and I probably don't know the proper phrases to find an equivalent question if it exists here on SU. I have seen a couple questions from 6-plus years back that ...
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Desktop PC with RAID won't boot
I'm trying to fix my dads PC (Windows 10) being on holiday at my parents place. He has a RAID Volume installed, built of 2 SATA discs where at least one disk seems to be corrupt - it makes an ugly ...
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How does the Intel ICH*R storage controller detect and fix errors in a RAID1 array on a full scan?
In Intel's RST tool to manage ICH*R arrays, there is an option for RAID1 arrays to "scan and fix" errors, which starts a job to scan the entire array.
So detecting errors with a high degree ...
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Can't change SATA mode from RAID to AHCI in Windows 10
I am trying to install Ubuntu in dual boot with Windows 10, but after many failed attempts I realized that I have to change SATA mode to AHCI.
I have tried literally everything I have read online, ...
