Questions tagged [software-raid]
Questions which refer to software RAID implementations.
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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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Can Clonezilla work with Windows striped volume?
Let's assume I have striped volume in Windows 11 (two disks).
Will Clonezilla be able to create and later restore images of both disks, so Windows will still recognize them properly as striped volume?
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Should I include my OS partition on my RAID or separate hard drive?
I plan to build a Linux (Ubuntu 10.04) home file server soon with 3-5 x 2TB hard drives in RAID 5 software raid but I'm not experienced with setting up RAIDs.
Should I include the actual Linux host ...
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Is there a way to install Windows onto Dynamic disks?
I like using the Dynamic disks with striping in Windows and was wondering if I could install from a Windows ISO onto a set of striped dynamic disks.
So far in my testing, that's not possible. I get ...
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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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Recoverability of Windows 10 storage pool (Software RAID 5)
I'm currently looking into RAID 5 for my growing data for my home PC and some things are still unclear to me. I currently have each of my drives backed up by an additional "backup" drive and ...
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Create RAID 1 on Windows 10
Usually I work with RAID controllers however in this case this is not possible so I need to use the "Windows software raid" (or some other kind of software raid for that matter).
If I have ...
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How to get an inactive RAID device working again?
After booting, my RAID1 device (/dev/md_d0 *) sometimes goes in some funny state and I cannot mount it.
* Originally I created /dev/md0 but it has somehow changed itself into /dev/md_d0.
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Use the speed of an SSD + two HDDs in RAID 1
Is it possible to gain a speed benefit of an SSD if you create a software RAID with a big SSD + two small HDDs?
At the moment I have a system with only two 320GB HDDs. And I thought about inserting a ...
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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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How to reshape a 2-disk RAID1 into a 2-disk RAID5 using mdadm?
According to How to remove a drive from a non-standard 2-drive RAID 5 array?, "with mdadm, a 2 drive RAID 5 is binary identical to a RAID1". If that is so, what's the mdadm command line for ...
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MDADM raid "lost" after reboot
I am kind of scared right now, so I hope you can bring light on my problem!
A few weeks ago, I bought a new 2TB drive and decided to setup a software RAID 5 with MDADM on my HTPC (drive sdb, sdc and ...
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How long should RAID 10 syncing stay at 'recovery = 99.9%'?
After replacing a faulty disk in a (CentOS 7) RAID 10, the syncing is at the following stage for quite some time now; it has had this state for more than a day:
md10 : active raid10 sdp1[9] sdo1[8](S)...
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Way to monitor progress of RAID10 rebuilding disks, when RAID does not show in /proc/mdstat?
I have an inactive RAID 10, and the output of mdadm --assemble --scan -v |& tail -17 is:
mdadm: /dev/sdn1 is identified as a member of /dev/md/10, slot 5.
mdadm: /dev/sdk1 is identified as a ...
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Do I need to wait for 100% resync?
I have set up a mirrored partition in Windows 10. Today I noticed a lot of disk activity in task manager for no apparent reason. Looking up the disk management, I see that it is resynchng.
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