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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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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How to convert ext4 partition on raid 1 to btrfs?
I'm trying to convert two ext4 partitions that are on raid 1 with mdadm to btrfs.
When i try to run
fsck.ext4 /dev/md0p2
fsck.ext4 /dev/md0p3
They return with
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
/dev/md0p3 ...
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RAID with 3 x 500GB on 3 disks? (9 partitions)
Looking to set up a photography PC slash storage. Below is my disk drives
500GB SATA Barracuda
2.0TB SATA Western
2.0TB SATA Western
500GB ePCI NVMN --- use this as the PC
It occured to me, if I ...
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How can I create a single partition from three different disks to install Windows on it?
I have 3 disks: 1TB, 512GB and 512GB. Is there any way to create a single 2TB partition and install Windows 10 on it? Data safety is not important.
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Is removing the disks from readynas duo v1 and reconnecting them after performing a factory reset likely to cause data loss?
As mentioned in the topic, ı want to remove disks then perform factory reset to clear mistaken configuration and lastly insert the disks back. Is there any possible data loss chance in this operation?
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HP DL360e gen8 - fans rev at 100% at all times
I want to install proxmox on this machine To do this, I need to disable the b320i raid controller (disks are not detected during installation), but when I did this, the fans start working at 100% all ...
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mdadm grow fails with "mdadm: Cannot add bitmap while array is resyncing or reshaping etc."
We have a RAID-1 setup. We changed the old 1TB disks for 3.7TB disks. The disk changes worked without a problem, the disks are in sync. We did have to change the partition type from MBR to GPT, but ...
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How to resize a linux raid-1 volume?
my some-years-old linux server has four raid-1 volumes:
/dev/md1 on /boot type ext4
/dev/md2 on / type ext4
/dev/md3 on /home type ext4
/dev/md4 on /data type ext4
The four volumes are stored in this ...
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Recovering QNAP TS-559Pro RAID 5 after double disk failure
Although the system itself stated that the array functions normally, DiskSMART for Disk 2 was giving yellow warning at Reallocated_Sector_Ct line:
Value=100
Worst Value=100
Threshold=010
Raw value=8
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Expand storage on PERC H710 RAID 0 Dell Poweredge R620
I can't find any good tutorials online. It's my first server and I don't know much.
I have a RAID 0 and I want to expand storage without losing my data? Is it the same process for a RAID 5?
I've read ...
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`zfs replace` keeps giving write errors with new drives & different SATA cables
I replaced a failing hard drive (increasing error counts in SMART, read/write/checksum errors in zpool status) in a ZFS raidz1 pool with a new one by running zfs offline and zfs replace. Resilvering ...
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Confused source with destination with ddrescue
I was about to recover second out of five failing RAID disks with ddrescue, and sudden peculiar twist occurred in my mind, and I typed
sudo ddrescue --verbose --idirect --no-scrape -f /dev/sda /dev/...
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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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Raid 0 to Raid 6
I currently have 4x 4TB NVME drives in an enclosure. I originally started with 2, and consolidated my full photo library onto this. I currently have a duplicate of the first data set on the newer set ...
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Creating a RAID-5 using Storage Spaces in Windows 11
I want to try the new Storage Spaces in Windows 11. Some years ago I bought an external enclosure with 5-bay for hard drives and also provide RAID 5 functionality out-of-the-box. It works pretty good ...
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