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Can I set JBOD and RAID10 at the same time on the NAS?
I am looking to buy ASUSTOR's FS6712X NAS, and 12 of 2TB NVME SSD and now have a question about the RAID settings.
Is it possible to set JBOD and RAID10 at the same time? So like having 12TB capacity ...
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How to Clone a Single SSD to a RAID 1 Array?
I have a 1TB SSD with Windows 11 installed and lots of software.
I want to set up a RAID 1 (mirror) configuration.
I installed two empty 1TB SSDs and configured RAID 1 in the BIOS.
I'm trying to clone ...
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SATA RAID 0 (striping) configuration under Windows 11
I have a 'semi-newish' desktop I put together (GigaByte motherboard) with 2x M.2 500GB SSDs. I thought I had properly configured them in RAID 0 via the UEFI settings. Yet then today I was adding a ...
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Recover files from failed raid 0
I have a client whose laptop (Asus GX502) stopped working, and as I fix the laptop he wants his data from his drives, but problem is that when I connected the nvme SSDs (512 GB each) to my test ...
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How to monitor drive failures via IPMI/Redfish Supermicro & Gigabyte
We have a bunch of Supermicro SuperServers deployed (various generations) and since we had a few drive (SSD) failures in the last month. We only noticed the failures (depending on the RAID level) ...
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Fault detected on drive 1 in disk drive bay 1 on a Dell R620, but is it really a concern?
It gives me this code on the display from the server (Fault detected on drive 1 in disk drive bay 1) , but in iDRAC:
Storage summary:
Fault logs:
Disks online:
I really don’t know what is happening,...
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Can RAID 1 fail (me)?
I read about RAID 25 years ago but never used it. Now I am considering mirroring a Dell work laptop's SSD using its BIOS/chipset RAID. Let's assume monthly backups are performed but I am looking to &...
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Single SSD in RAID10 array has Wear_Leveling_Count issue
I run a RAID10 machine with 4x Samsung 480GB SSD's. The drives are of identical age.
3 of the drives have a Wear_Leveling_Count 090, but one is now as low as 003. I don't understand why one of the ...
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Trouble understanding difference between disk and drives
So I'm studying for the A+ and we are currently learning about RAID configurations. It says Raid 0 requires 2 disk while Raid requires 2 drives. However wouldn't Raid 0 still require two drives ...
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Is there any disadvantage on using desktop ssd for raid server storage?
I know that it's necessary to use enterprise SSD for Raid server storage, but the company I work for cannot afford that kind of SSD, (even the recommended SAS HDD is too expensive). This limits my ...
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How many NVMe SSDs can I connect to a desktop PC and how?
I have 25 NVMe 2230 SSDs, each of them 256 GB. I was wondering how many of them can be connected to my desktop PC somehow. I know there are some adapters like quad NVMe to PCI-E but I want to use a ...
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Change 2 512Gb SSDs NVMe in Raid0 (1Tb total) to one simple SSD of 2Tb, is it possible?
Sorry for my bad english I'm french, I will try to be as understandable as possible.
I wanted to add more space to my Alienware m15 R4 PC laptop, I knew it has 1 terabyte of storage and that there was ...
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Is JBOD or striping better for lots of small files?
I have a server in multi-disk configuration using LVM-on-LUKS in JBOD mode. But I notice in htop that the kernel time in CPU usage is (un)usually very high, and in iotop the jbd2/dm-5-8 and ...
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Which ssd configuration is best for programming using Visual Studio 2019? 2 SSD 1TB with RAID 0 configuration or one single SSD 2TB [closed]
I want to buy a DELL machine of 17". I have two options:
DELL Alienware x17
Intel Core i7 12700H 12th generation, Windows 11 PRO (English & Spanish), Graphic Card NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti ...
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How to migrate primary system drive from RAID array to SSD with Windows already installed?
I currently have an SSD (C:) with Windows 10 installed on it (C:/Windows/*). I also have a RAID 1+0 array of 4 HDDs (D:) that does not have an OS installed. I would like to remove the RAID (D:) ...
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