Questions tagged [raid]
Redundant array of independent/inexpensive disks; a technology which utilizes multiple disks to provide increased reliability, performance, and/or redundancy. Can be implemented either in software or with a hardware controller.
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Boot Windows 10 from RAID0
I had a Windows 10 machine with Auros Z390 Pro mainbard, SATA SSD system disk and RAID0 with two M2 disks and successfully installed seconds clean Windows 10 on the RAID.
Now when I start my machine I ...
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Rebuilding Windows Server 2019 Boot
I have a Windows 2019 Server that has been in service for about 8 months. It is an MSI 670P motherboard and implements a RAID10. It won't boot. Apparently there was a power failure, and the system ...
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UEFI Intel RST RAID issue, can it be solved with MDADM?
I had two disks running on RAID0 on a Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6. They contained a Windows installation, although not used at all as I was running linux from another SSD disk.
They were running on the Intel ...
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Why is my RAID 1 NAS (WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra) reporting RAID health "degraded" after replacing one disk and RAID rebuild?
I have a WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra NAS, almost 6 years old, and got a red light on it recently, indicating a disk problem. The NAS web dashboard reported one of the disks is bad, so I bought a replacement ...
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Faulty disk replaced but not visible in RAID 1
I have an old NAS called Netgear Stora. It has two SSD drives in RAID1. Unfortunately one of the drives started to light red on the cover and it appeared faulty (also it started to sound very noisy ...
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Preserving all user data when replacing a failing RAID controller by importing "foreign configuration"
I intend to replace a failing AOC-SAS2LP-H8iR RAID controller with a LSI MegaRaid SAS 9260-8i controller (offered by our IT facility, who suggests these cards are compatible, but also warns that there ...
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What makes e2fsck -cc so slow?
This isn't a complaint or a request for tech support or help! I'm just curious about what's going on behind the scenes :)
I'm doing e2fsck -cc to flag bad blocks on an 8TB LVM ext4 filesystem. ...
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Building a RAID 6 NVMe SSD only server using Supermicro case, backplane, and mobo with a Broadcom MegaRAID 9670-24i
To summarize: It will be a bummer to ship all these parts then fly out to do the build to find out a $2,000 RAID card doesn't play nice with a backplane. or that i bought the wrong cable since the ...
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How do I copy a non-RAID image to a RAID 1?
I backed-up the image of a computer's single drive that was not part of a RAID. Then I installed a second new, identical, empty drive. Configuring the RAID via the BIOS erased the old drive, but I ...
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How exact do I need to be about replacing disks like-for-like in a RAID 1 NAS? Can I replace a disk with one of greater capacity?
I want to replace one of the disks in my NAS, which currently contains two 6TB disks, arranged in a RAID 1 array. Do I need to replace with a disk of exactly the same size? If "it depends," ...
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“failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED” with HDD plugged to ASM1062 (PCI-E SATA expansion card)
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I refurbished an ASRock QC5000M motherboard for a home server, by installing Debian 12 on it with the intent to set up a RAID 1 on 2 hard drives.
This motherboard only has 2 SATA ports, so I ...
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Read data from a raid1 disk, superblocks erased
I have a disk that used to be inside my qnap NAS (it was in raid1 with another disk, which I still have). The NAS died and I mounted the disk on my ubuntu machine using mdadm to create the raid array ...
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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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Doing a disk copy with dd on RAID1 devices on Ubuntu
I want to make exact copies of two drives using dd. The two drives are mounted on Ubuntu as a single RAID1 device. The RAID (consisting of two drives) is bootable. If I make exact copies of the two ...
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When trying to setup Raid Sata, and only the top sata ports detect drives
I disabled CSM and enabled sata raid in the bios. After rebooting, the top 3 sata ports detect drives in the bios and windows and the bottom 3 located on the motherboard do not. Is there a solution or ...
