Questions tagged [software-raid]
Questions which refer to software RAID implementations.
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degraded mdadm RAID5 array
My /dev/md0 array just died last night. I got this email
This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on
A Fail event had been detected on md device /dev/md0.
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CentOS - mdadm raid1 drive won't mount to default location
I'm running CentOS 5.5, the system, boot, swap, etc. is all on /dev/sda and I have two identical single-partition drives /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 that are configured in RAID1 (using mdadm). It was working ...
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Will mirroring with an SSD improve read performance?
If you use Windows 7 to mirror a volume across an SSD drive and a mechanical hard drive, will the read performance be similar to a single SSD drive?
I.e. is Windows smart enough to read from them ...
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Is it possible to enable software RAID 1 on Windows XP system partition?
I have heard, that it should be somehow possible to use just one partition with Windows XP, and be able to mirror that by enabling RAID 1 in XP. I'd appreciate tips how to do this.
If this is true, ...
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Windows 7 Raid - Drives can't see each other
I'm trying to stripe two drives using the disk management tool. Both partitions give me the option to stripe them but when I use the wizard the other drive doesn't show up to allow me to raid to it!
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RAID-1 in RHEL 6; can't get partitioning on identical devices to look identical
I have a RHEL 6 fileserver. It contains two identical 2TB SATA drives. Both are supposed to contain one partition that takes up all the space on the drive (and this used to be the case). When I had ...
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Update grub for whole disks added to software raid
I have a raid-1 running under rhel6 (/dev/md0) that is mapped to /. It contains two unpartitioned disks (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb). I'd like to be able to boot from either disk. But grub won't let me ...
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Adding disk to windows-7 RAID-5
If I have a 3-disk RAID 5, and I want to add a 4th disk to the RAID, can this be done without moving all the data out of the existing raid array and rebuilding it as a 4 disk raid-5 array?
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Several questions about software and onboard RAID 5
I have a few questions on how software and onboard RAID 5 compare:
Is there any way to add a disk to an existing RAID 5 array using either software or onboard RAID?
All motherboards I'm interested in ...
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Reformat soft RAID-5 Ubuntu
I built a linux (Ubuntu) box a year ago and decided to have some fun and use a soft RAID 5. I followed the instructions here.
Things seemed to work fine, but now it's time to reformat the computer ...
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Onboard RAID vs Software RAID
My motherboard, an Asus M4a79t Deluxe, advertises RAID 0/1/5 capabilities. My limited understanding is that onboard RAID is better than software RAID. Is this necessarily true? Is an onboard RAID ...
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How to remove swap partitions from RAID 1 Array on Ubuntu?
Can anyone point in the right direction on how to remove SWAP out of a RAID1 configuration on Ubuntu 10.04 server? According to the Ubuntu Advanced installation guide, here, it said to add swap to the ...
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Why do motherboard manufacturers continue to include fake RAID? [closed]
Windows 7 is becoming ubiquitous and offers a simple software RAID solution within the OS. Modern desktop Linux distros have good software RAID capability as well.
But mid to high end motherboards ...
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Windows 7 Mirroring Drive Failure
I had a few questions when a drive fails that is setup with software RAID 1 in Windows 7, e.g. Dynamic disk mirroring:
Will it still boot using the good drive (assuming boot drive is RAID 1), or ...
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I'm trying to mirror drives of the same model, but one appears to be slightly larger
I'm trying to mirror a drive using Disk Management in Windows Home Server 2011. The target drive (Disk 1) is the exact same model as the source drive (Disk 0), but the target drive appears to be 1MB ...
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