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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 migrate mdadm RAID10 with 4 disks to RAID5?

I have a software RAID10 based on Linux’ mdadm under Debian Buster. Originally I found RAID10 had best performance. But I need more space and accept to trade some write performance for +50% space. # ...
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Metadata of the assambled raid inconsistent with the metadata of the individual drives?

We have a raid 10 with two failed drives, with one drive from each set still functional. When booting into rescue system the metadata seems to be fine and consistent with the expected state. The ...
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Software RAID0+1 using 3 disks

Is it possible to use mdadm to do RAID0+1 using 3 disks? My scenario is 1x2TB disk and 2x1TB disks. Not interested in the RAID0 performance boost, just want to combine them so I can mirror them with ...
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Need to find which drives are mirrored within RAID-10 array

I have a home media server running on openSUSE 12.2. I'm using eight 2TB drives in a RAID-10 configuration. I deliberately bought two different types of drives: four Seagate Barracuda Green and four ...
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Linux raid10 on btrfs

I've read that BTRFS requires at least 4 disks (https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Using_Btrfs_with_Multiple_Devices). Indeed, Linux mdadm raid10 requires only 2 disks (http://en.wikipedia.org/...
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Adding drives to a RAID 10 Array

How would I grow a RAID10 array using mdadm? Obviously I would need to add 2 drives at a time, or would it have to be 4 drives? I have a feeling its just a bad idea. Or would be just wiser to just ...
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