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Questions about external SSD software RAID?
I currently have two 2.5" 4TB SSDs. My plan is to get an external Thunderbolt enclosure with a minimum of 4 bays and no hardware RAID (e.g. OWC Thunderbay Mini), and buy two more 4TB SSDs to make ...
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How do I access a Windows 10 Storage Spaces from another Windows 10 install?
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So a while ago (maybe 3 weeks ago) I decided to divide my NVMe in half to duel boot Windows and Linux. In the process I somehow deleted my Windows boot partitions or something. I honestly ...
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Software RAID10 done via Windows 10 - would it remain after system re-installation?
Configuration: 4x1TB HDDs added into a storage space in Windows10 with 2-way mirroring, resulting in 2TB storage (so, I believe, "software-RAID10"):
screenshot of the setup
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What kind of raid I have?
I have the raid option on bios and I got Intel chipset SATA/PCIe RST premium and Microsoft Storage Spaces controllers under storage controllers on device manager but both my disks on basic mode. Is ...
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Storage Spaces - Parity vs Mirrored or Single with Robocopy
So I'm thinking of dropping my Synology RAID 6 NAS and upgrading to Storage Spaces. I have a number of dissimilar sized drives and Storage Spaces would allow me to use those. My NAS is maxed out at ...
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Expand a Linux MD RAID 10 array to use larger disks
From what I understand this is possible, but I can't find a straight answer anywhere about how exactly to go about it, and I don't want to risk losing data experimenting with it myself so I'm asking ...
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Intel Matrix Storage Manager vs Linux Software RAID
The chipset I'm using supports the Intel RSTe technology. It means that I have two options for RAID setup:
Ordinary linux software RAID, using mdadm command.
RSTe (either by the BIOS or, again, using ...
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How do I activate software raid-1 in Windows?
I use Windows Vista Ultimate, and have four disks of 500GB. Windows is already installed on one disk, the systemdisk.
Now I would like to mirror the system disk using Windows built-in software raid. ...
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Re-Initialize RAID-0 in software after card failure
I'm working on a Friend's WD MyBook "1TB" HDD that is not mounting. When I got in to it, I discovered that it is really 2 500GB HDD's set up as RAID-0. It appears that the drives themselves are fine,...
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